“One of the most powerful new films I’ve seen in years.”
— Quentin Tarantino
“Rockwell’s film is utterly gorgeous…
Surely one of the most caring, tender films of the last year.”
— Michael Frank, The Film Stage
“Rockwell intentionally reminds his audience of the rich history of
American independent cinema.”
–Teo Bugbee, The New York Times
TWO CHILDREN SPEND AN EVENTFUL SUMMER IN
A BEACH HOUSE IN ALEXANDRE ROCKWELL’S POETIC, UPLIFTING CELEBRATION OF CHILDHOOD,
A BERLINALE CRYSTAL BEAR WINNER
SWEET THING
Street Date: October 12, 2021
DVD/Digital: $24.95
The Newest Drama from the Sundance Grand Jury-Winning Director (In the Soup), Stars Lana Rockwell, Nico Rockwell, Karyn Parsons & Will Patton; Includes a Video Introduction from Rockwell and the Bonus Short Film, “The Binding of Itzik”
SYNOPSIS
Two children in contemporary New Bedford, Massachusetts spend an eventful summer in a beach house with their mother and her boyfriend in SWEET THING, director Alexandre Rockwell’s poetic, uplifting rendering of childhood which captured the Berlinale Crystal Bear in the Generation K-plus section in 2020.
In SWEET THING, Billie (Lana Rockwell, Little Feet), a 15-year-old girl who fantasizes Billie Holiday as a sort of fairy godmother, is forced to navigate the evolving challenges of her life while she plays mother to her 11-year-old brother, Nico (Nico Rockwell, Little Feet). They soon meet up with another adolescent, run away from home, and together roam the area free from their parents’ watchful gaze. Discovering freedom and enchantment among New Bedford’s boats and railway tracks, the trio fantasize about a life of luxury when they break into a posh home, and are able to carry the taste of affluence into their adventures. An ode to that trying age when young people prepare to take their first step into adulthood, SWEET THING, starring Rockwell’s children Lana and Nico, Karyn Parsons (“The Fresh Prince of Bel Air”) and Will Patton (Minari, The Forever Purge, Swamp Thing), is an intense but ultimately uplifting, portrait that captures the essence of that time in life when a day can last forever.
BONUS FEATURES
- Video Introduction by Alexandre Rockwell
- Bonus Short Film — The Binding of Itzik (Directed by Anika Benkov | United States | 18 minutes) — A middle-aged Hasidic bookbinder gets more than he bargained for when he answers a Craigslist ad in this winner of the Film Movement Award at the 2021 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Type: DVD/Digital (iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play)
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 91 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: 2.0 Stereo
About Film Movement
Founded in 2002, Film Movement is a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. It has released more than 250 feature films and shorts culled from prestigious film festivals worldwide including the Oscar-nominated films Theeb (2016) and Corpus Christi (2020). Film Movement’s theatrical releases include American independent films, documentaries, and foreign art house titles. Its catalog includes titles by directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Maren Ade, Jessica Hausner, Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrzej Wajda, Diane Kurys, Ciro Guerra and Melanie Laurent. In 2015, Film Movement launched its reissue label Film Movement Classics, featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on Blu-ray and DVD, including films by such noted directors as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway, Bille August, Marleen Gorris, Takeshi Kitano, Arturo Ripstein, King Hu, Sergio Corbucci, Ettore Scola and Luchino Visconti. For more information, please visit www.filmmovement.com. Visit www.filmmovementplus.com for more information about Film Movement Plus, the new subscription streaming service from Film Movement.
