Gina Rodriguez, Miranda July and Evan Rachel Wood at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival presenting … [+]
Miranda July’s third feature film, Kajillionaire, had its British premiere during the London Film Festival on October 7. With visually-arresting images, Kajillionaire offers an off-beat view at an unusual family of petty crime hustlers.
Kajillionaire opens at a bus station. As the bus passes,
Have we as a culture ever truly given the Sims their due? I suspect not. But after briefly stepping into a fabricated realm of airships and robots for my first virtual reality theater experiment, “Miranda: A Steampunk VR Experience,” I have a newfound respect for how those digital denizens of SimCity navigate a virtual unreality.
Plugging in, strapping in and booting up like Neo entering the Matrix, I used a
Editor’s Note: This review originally ran as part of our 2020 Sundance Film Festival coverage, and we’re reposting it this week with the film hitting streaming services. Revisit all of our Sundance 2020 coverage.
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If this year’s Sundance had a lesson for returning filmmakers, it would have been this: Evolve or die. Those that did, such as Sean Durkin (whose fantastic feature The Nest I, unfortunately, won’t be