Argentina has been within the information fairly a bit this week with the current passing of Pope Francis, who was born in Buenos Aires. It is also the stomping floor of rising artist and filmmaker Amalia Ulman, whose follow-up to her acclaimed film El Planeta is ready primarily in Argentina regardless of being an English-language movie. Magic Farm presents a uniquely charming cinematic expertise. Its infectiously absurd comedic vibes could call to mind Napoleon Dynamite, however the precise subject material grazes a pertinent well being disaster looming in South America and different components of the world. In impact, writer-director-star Ulman creates an thrilling finish outcome that’s without delay humorous and thought-provoking whereas we observe together with a bumbling American movie crew making an attempt to make TV gold in a rural Argentine city — usually to disastrous outcomes.
MovieWeb not too long ago caught up with Ulman to study extra about her newest indie comedy movie, which is for certain to resonate with many cinephiles. “I believe this movie is critical. I believe comedy is critical. I do not like when comedy will not be taken critically. It is a disservice to folks’s intelligence,” Ulman instructed MovieWeb. “That is one thing that I’ve at all times struggled with, you recognize, like with El Planeta. I used to be additionally accused of, like, coping with a topic like that with comedy.” Ulman continued:
“However exactly in El Planeta, that is a topic that I personally handled, and I do know that when tragedy and disaster like that occurs, it occurs over time. Like, it isn’t only a fixed. It is one thing that’s looming within the background. And there is moments of levity, and there is humor, and there is those who have a method to survive these items. So, in essence, I am making an attempt to be lifelike with the way it really is in conditions like that. These tragedies occur, but additionally, folks fall in love, can get attractive. There’s, like, all this different stuff, truthfully. I believe that is my type of filmmaking, and I do not suppose it will ever change.”
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Chloë Sevigny: “Very Alpha”
Magic Farm
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April 25, 2025
- Runtime
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93 Minutes
- Director
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Heidi Ewing
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Heidi Ewing
Ulman’s newest movie includes a fantastic little ensemble led by a never-better Chloë Sevigny (Monsters), who additionally joined our interview with the director. Sevigny nails her position because the TV crew’s head honcho, perpetually pressured about her dysfunctional workforce in making an attempt to place a documentary of types collectively concerning the small Argentine city they mistakenly wandered into. Given Sevigny’s huge expertise engaged on TV and movie units through the years, she opened as much as us about how she was in a position to slip into her Magic Farm position that a lot simply:
“I am… very alpha. I am additionally, like, very sensible, and in my pal group, I really feel like I am probably the most sane of everybody. So I am used to navigating folks with eccentricities and those who take a look at the world in several methods, and typically it is enjoyable to take a look at and navigate the world by way of their eyes. However now, I at all times must sort of steer the ship, you recognize, to get us wherever we’re going subsequent.”
From MUBI, Magic Farm will probably be launched in theaters beginning Friday, April 25, 2025. Take a look at the trailer beneath: