IFC Films has released the trailer for Mainstream, the second feature film from Gia Coppola (Palo Alto). The film had its world premiere at the 2020 Venice Film Festival and is scheduled for a theatrical release on May 7th.
Mainstream stars Maya Hawke as Frankie, a young woman who dreams of internet stardom when she meets Link (Andrew Garfield), a charismatic YouTube sensation. The two start to make videos on the platform together and quickly go viral, turning their internet channel into a mainstream televised gameshow. But pretty soon, the dark...
Mainstream stars Maya Hawke as Frankie, a young woman who dreams of internet stardom when she meets Link (Andrew Garfield), a charismatic YouTube sensation. The two start to make videos on the platform together and quickly go viral, turning their internet channel into a mainstream televised gameshow. But pretty soon, the dark...
- 4/6/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Seven years after Gia Coppola turned a dreamily sympathetic eye on the pretty, youthful wasters of her high-school-set debut “Palo Alto,” she returns with “Mainstream,” packing a far smaller store of compassion and a lot less insight into the next micro-life-stage of telegenic wasted youth. A brittle, exasperated satire on social media celebrity, her sophomore film, like the tacky messiah it creates in Andrew Garfield’s YouTube sensation, soon becomes the very thing it sets out to expose: Sure, it’s a platitude [shrug emoticon] but hey, it’s delivered with attitude. [wink emoji; thumbs up; eggplant]
Maya Hawke plays Frankie, a disaffected young bartender in a low-rent comedy club, where she works alongside aspiring writer and singer Jake. During the day, Frankie slouches around L.A., absently filming little nihilist vignettes to upload to her undersubscribed YouTube channel. One of these clips catches a guy dressed as a mouse in a mall forecourt accosting passersby in front of a Kandinsky print,...
Maya Hawke plays Frankie, a disaffected young bartender in a low-rent comedy club, where she works alongside aspiring writer and singer Jake. During the day, Frankie slouches around L.A., absently filming little nihilist vignettes to upload to her undersubscribed YouTube channel. One of these clips catches a guy dressed as a mouse in a mall forecourt accosting passersby in front of a Kandinsky print,...
- 9/5/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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