2021 · comedy · drama · parody
Mainstream
Directed by Gia Coppola1h 35m2021
A young woman thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger – until the dark side of viral celebrity threatens to ruin them both.
Our read: Mainstream (2021) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive comedy · drama · parody entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- cold
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