want to do and what were ready for, as phrased in the song that gives Andrea an inevitable bit of a love story between Star and Jake, although its not a Packing her belongings while Nathan is in another room, Star secretly escapes and takes the children to the club where their stepmother Misty dances. She's trying things on. That's my understanding. American Honey: The Story Behind the Years Best Road Movie, Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless Director and French New Wave Icon, Dead at 91, Why The Godfather Is Unthinkable Without James Caan, These 10 Roles Remind You Why William Hurt Was a Once-in-a-Lifetime Actor, Academy Slaps Down New Rules After Andrea Riseborough, Tom Cruise, Michelle Yeoh Controversies, Here's Where to Watch 'Scream 6' (and All the 'Scream' Movies) Online, Ryan Murphy Sets Sights on Menndez Brothers for 'Monster' Season 2, White House Plumbers Gives Watergate the Veep Treatment and Misses Big, Roy Wood Jr. 2023 Variety Media, LLC. And it was a huge, huge experience for me at that time, and opened up my eyes to so many things. [34] The pool scene was filmed at a private residence in Bennington, Nebraska. I notice that in so many films! widescreen vistas of the heart of the country, but its effective because it It tells a good story, about a girl named Star (Sasha Lane), 18 years old, with Rasta Barbie braids and a skeptical smirk, who joins a wolfpack of kids in their late teens and early twenties who live on the road, traveling from one cookie-cutter motel to the next, making money by hustling magazine subscriptions door-to-door. I dont wanna get on any kind of soapbox, but I feel like thats not a way to live. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. The Unloved, Part 113: The Sheltering Sky, Fatal Attraction Works As Entertainment, Fails as Social Commentary, Prime Videos Citadel Traps Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Richard Madden in Played-Out Spy Game, New York Philharmonic and Steven Spielberg Celebrate the Music of John Williams. (0:58) The crew leave the motel to make a sell at another neighborhood. The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in a story of youth. And then the head of the crew, a woman who is played by Riley Keough, who is Elvis Presley's granddaughter - and she's terrific in this - she says to Star, you've got anyone who'll miss you? GROSS: Yes, right. American Honeys ending is ambiguous. Jake is suddenly back on the team and gives Star a turtle, which she releases into a lake, immersing herself in the water, during the groups celebratory bonfire. The breed of amoral nihilists that Arnold finds so fascinating here certainly dont deserve our commendation. The following day, annoyed by Jake, Star vows to outsell him. They want something from me. In a series of dynamic, episodic scenes, the young woman dives into this unusual work, enduring her domineering boss (a sexy, trashy Riley Keough) and falling in love with her cocky supervisor Jake (a revelatory Shia LaBeouf) as they encounter cowboys and oil workers, meth addicts and prickly religious suburbanites. And I think even when we were doing it, everyone was thinking, wow, how is this going to work because it's kind of such a strong image? What is the streaming release date of American Honey (2016) in Canada? the blue sky. She lives a painful life, caring for two children that aren't hers and living with their sexually abusive father, Nathan. And then she realizes that Jake is there, too. The songs were compiled by producer Julia Oh, music supervisors Earworm Music, Andrea Arnold, and the films cast. Jake returns to the crew as they sing along to this song. Honey (Jessica Alba from Fantastic Four and Valentine's Day) takes Raymond (Zachary Isaiah Williams) to a barbershop. How new movie 'American Honey' turned a Texas college student into a star, gave Shia LeBeouf his comeback and offered a voice to our nation's unheard. So you don't want talk about your life? Star I suppose recognises that Jake is a quintessential bad boy and agrees to have sex with him, consummating their burgeoning romance. She told me that actually towards the end - which I think this happens because a lot of the managers in the mag crews have been people who have been in the mag crew for a long time and then they become managers, they're people who are good at it and then become managers - she said that she hit someone at one point because they hadn't sold very much. Yet to watch it is to touch something beautiful and broken in the heart of the first generation of Americans since the 50s who feel like they dont have the luxury to dream, and as a result haveforgotten how. Exactly, and so, you know, I completely am on the side of them when we go up to them. makes her feature debut confidently, never feeling like shes performing as It just felt right., I said, It wont be easy, youll be tired,' Arnold admits. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. "[65] Eric Kohn of Indiewire was enthusiastic, writing that American Honey "proves Andrea Arnold is one of the best working filmmakers and finds a breakout star in Sasha Lane," and that "It's the closest thing to a magnum opus in Arnold's blossoming career. In a series of dynamic, episodic scenes, the young woman dives into this unusual work, enduring her domineering boss (a sexy, trashy Riley Keough) and And there are quite a few kind of people going around looking for girls to be in porn films. And that was it, she was gone. Star confronts Misty and tells her it's her turn to care for the kids, and though Misty refuses, Star runs away from the club to the motel and sleeps outside the crew's van until morning. You would think that Star would fit right in here but her surly demeanor prevents her from being a particularly good salesperson.Star soon runs afoul of the groups leader, Krystal, an all-business supervisor who sees a potential problem with her new hires inability to interact effectively with customers. around the next corner kept us unsettled and needing to move. But I had chatted a lot to people who had done it before, so I heard a lot of things. And she wants to look brown all the time (laughter). But, see, you're talking about stuff that I can't possibly talk about because, you know, when I make films I don't want to be discussing these things because I feel like, one, they're really personal and, two, they're really complicated. They get rejected all the time., Editors picks ARNOLD: A little bit. That's how we found all of them really. And through kind of teasing and flirtation and teaching her how to use his video camera, Michael Fassbender's character eventually seduces the teenage girl into having sex with him. Krystal then has Jake put tanning lotion on her body as Star watches, and Star promises to improve. The trio bring her to their home and offer to buy several subscriptions if she eats the worm at the bottom of a bottle of mezcal. But its heartbreaking, because even though theres an element of grown-up desire to that scenario, the way Star voices it shes like a little girl talking about what she wants to be when she grows up. 1.33:1 style and it creates a visually fascinating aesthetic. SHIA LABEOUF: (As Jake) You read the handbook last night? How do you go looking for them when you're not putting out a casting call? And I've done quite a lot of it myself, you know. And she was always, you know, practicing her moves and everything. Why is this movie in 1.37:1 (4:3)? follows Star on adventures in the magazine sales trade, bringing her back to "American Honey" explores themes of youth, freedom, and the search for identity, and is a visually stunning and emotionally charged film. Guy Lodge of Variety was extremely positive, writing, "Part dreamy millennial picaresque, part distorted tapestry of Americana and part exquisitely illustrated iTunes musical, "Honey" daringly commits only to the loosest of narratives across its luxurious 162-minute running time. Andrea Arnold also directed "Fish Tank" and "Wuthering Heights" as well as several episodes of the series "Transparent.". [29][30][31] In late May 2015, production was reported in Mission Hills, Kansas and areas of Kansas City, Missouri,[32][33] as well as Missouri Valley, Iowa. She wants to become a professional dancer. Well, because my family are alive. 2022 WhatSong Soundtracks. speeding down the freeway. ARNOLD: You know (laughter), and - which is where we did most of our auditioning. And Star says no. So I went to that audition, and I thought I'm just going to go around the stage like a cat. It was pretty much that way. It had a lot of resonance for me just the world and what it involved, and all these kids coming from quite difficult places where they dont have too much family. I'm wondering what your teen years were like. Keep in mind that this group of young people are not whom you might expect: a coterie of clean-cut, Fundamentalist Christians selling wholesome magazinesbut quite the contrary, a group of foul-mouthed cut-ups who revel in playing pranks on one another when not working and obnoxiously belting out hip-hop numbers reflecting their anti-establishment weltanschauung. Usually, theyre at a party, they put some music on, but theyre all dancing to something else, so the rhythms a bit off. Initially angry at Jake, Star is later touched that he came to find her, and the two have sex in the car. The movie is a bulletin seductive, alarmed, fascinated told from the inside. Honey Invert sugar Malt sugar Molasses Raw sugar Sugar Sugar molecules ending in ose (dextrose, fructose, glucose, lactose, maltose, sucrose) Syrup On some food products, you may see claims related to sugars. GROSS: Now, I read that you hosted a couple of teen shows in England. We have leaflets, you know, we have numbers they can call, you know. Star returns Jake's phone, as it had fallen out of his pocket, and he offers her a job as part of their magazine sales crew, telling her to come with him to Kansas City. ARNOLD: Yeah. LABEOUF: (As Jake) That's a bunch of [expletive], all that. I don't really know what's going to happen. For me, the space and the, you know - if people go see "Fish Tank," I would love them to not know - I wouldn't want to explain to them what I kind of intended or what I felt were the intentions of each of those characters. And I wasn't able to get a grant because I hadn't done ballet and stuff. And Arnold and cinematographer Robbie Ryan Over the past 10 years, the United States has gone from producing more than half of all the honey it consumes to importing the vast majority, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [19] Arnold discovered Sasha Lane while she was on spring break with her friends; Lane decided to audition for the film and was cast in the lead role. Yet when you see American Honey, you may feel that teenage rebellion, for the first time, has gone about as far as it can go that its reached a point where its consuming itself. The first house Jake and Star try to sell. Any sad spiel, and they'll just say it over and over and over again 'til it's meaningless. Ultimately, American Honey is about motiona van of kids speeding down the freeway. So most of my kind of dancing, in those early days, was kind of things where you didn't have to have any kind of ballet training. played in their entirety. I'm trying to get my life back together. Everybody The crew arrive at a motel. I saw a lot of vulnerability, she says. (2:30) The van arrives to pick up the crew. And then I was thinking, well, Crystal - what's she doing? For a while, things between Jake and Star are tense, and Krystal threatens to drop her on the side of the road if she keeps causing trouble. The answer is that she came here and did her research and even discovered the films star, newcomer Sasha Lane, who was sunbathing on a beach while on spring break from college. GROSS: So the people who actually subscribe to the magazines through the teenagers who are in these mag crews, do they ever get the magazine?
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