QUEEN OF EARTH (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), Katherine Waterston (Steve Jobs), Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous), Kentucker Audley (V/H/S), Keith Poulson (Red Flag), Kate Lyn Sheil (You’re Next)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip), director, writer, producer; Elisabeth Moss (film debut), Adam Piotrowicz (Friends and Romans) and Joe Swanberg (The Zone), producers; Keegan DeWitt (Miss Ohio), composer; Sean Price Williams (Frownland), cinematographer; Robert Greene (Christmas, Again), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Childhood friends Catherine (Moss) and Ginny (Waterston) spend a week together at a lake house retreat, but when Catherine begins to display signs of depression and insanity in the wake of her father’s death and a major break-up it causes the pair of them to discover that they have drifted apart in more ways than one…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Elisabeth Moss, coming off the recently-concluded hit show that was Mad Men, delivers an intense and even creepy lead performance that should remind people why she became popular in the first place.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 1ST JULY 2016

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