SUNDANCE 2010

Sundance 2010 Video Review: The Duplass Brothers' Cyrus

by Alex Billington
January 24, 2010

The Duplass Brothers' new film Cyrus premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Almost everyone I know was at the screening, including our own Brandon Tenney. The Duplass Brothers have premiered many of their short films and their last two features, The Puffy Chair and Baghead, at Sundance previously, but this was the first year that their film has ever played in the biggest Eccles Theater. Dave and Peter of SlashFilm recorded a video review of Cyrus with Brandon after the premiere last night. In short, they all loved it, even Brandon, and all had great things to say. Cyrus is pretty much a knock out of the park. Watch both below.

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Here's a bit of commentary from Sundance about this particular film: "Cyrus becomes a dark, poignant, sometimes hilarious war dance as Molly, Cyrus, and John walk the line between creepy and sympathetic. Each member of this awkward triangle teeters somewhere between bare honesty and furtive manipulation as he or she lets loose all manner of dysfunctionality. The excruciating, delightful fun is seeing where the boundaries ultimately land." Cyrus is being distributed by Fox Searchlight later this year. Watch the trailer for it here. It does not have a release date yet, but I expect it to hit in summer or fall. Stay tuned for more.

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