Principal photography began in May 2015 with filming taking place in several states across America. Their mothers have alcohol or drug problems. That's the make-or-break moment 'cause in that second, you've got to work them. "[66] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "A road movie without a map that nonetheless arrives at a worthwhile destination," and wrote, "The film works best as a poignant character study, observing Star as she settles into her independence and figures out who she wants to be, framed by a vast physical landscape that stretches socioeconomically from privileged wealth to squalid poverty. GROSS: Who kind of lures her in. Star declines but Jake nevertheless tells her to meet them in the parking lot of the local Motel 6 the next morning. Packing her belongings while Nathan is in another room, Star secretly escapes and takes the children to the club where their stepmother Misty dances. WebAmerican Honey (2016) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Andrea Arnold Writing Credits (in alphabetical order) Cast (in credits order) Produced by Cinematography by Robbie Ryan Film Editing by Joe Bini Casting By Lucy Pardee Jennifer Venditti Production Design by Kelly McGehee Art Direction by Lance So, you know, I got a place, at a kind of a really good dance school. I wont tell you that American Honey is anything likea perfect movie; it goes on too long, falling off in the last act. It's about a group of teenagers who are abandoned, are homeless and have become something of a family traveling together by van from town to town, state to state selling magazine subscriptions door to door, making up different explanations depending on who opens the door. American Honey is a 2016 road drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold. WebIn this installment of Films Explained, I explore the elusive narrative and symbolism in Andrea Arnold's American Honey (2016). It is Arnold's first film to be set and fil Theres a certain mythology that has coalesced around the Millennials, and that mythology says: The Millennials area terrific generation, sympathetic and enlightened, free of so many of the prejudices about race, gender, and sexuality that have hindered those older than they are. The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History Thats at the very end of the film when people sort of bittersweetly know its going to end and theyve been on this journey together, says Oh. "[58] On review aggregator Metacritic, it holds an 80 out of 100 rating, based on reviews from 41 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[59]. Running 163 minutes, the film provides a Zeitgeist-y snapshot of American youth culture the carefree partying, passionate sex and bitter resignation but its intimate enough to feel like a deeply personal work. And she plays a teenager whose mother is an alcoholic and pays little attention to her, and the mother has a new boyfriend played by Michael Fassbender. 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. Jake is suddenly back on the team and gives Star a turtle, which she releases into a lake, immersing herself in the water, [41], Other songs featured in the film but not included in the soundtrack are:[45], In January 2016, A24 acquired distribution rights to the film. I think - yeah, this is kind of - this is a little strong, but I'm going to go with it. They were - they were not thinking really about the magazines. ARNOLD: I mean, normally at the beginning, we might do some kind of general casting call which is on the Internet and usually that looks pretty legitimate. So Wal-Mart car lot in spring break down in Panama City Beach is just rocking. much as living in the moment. engaginga testament to Arnolds direction. Ultimately, American Honey is about motiona van of kids I learned so much about cameras and about putting things together and all the kind of things that I use now in what I do. And they said, do you want to come with us? 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How a film about "mag crews" made a Texas student into a star, gave Shia LaBeouf his comeback and offers a voice to our nation's unheard. Is it really enough though? And John Powers will review the new HBO series "Westworld" which premieres Sunday. [63] The film won the 2016 Cannes Film Festival's Jury Prize,[7] and received a special commendation from its Ecumenical Jury. And Nadia was pretty good at that. She wrote and directed the new film "American Honey." Shortly after, a bloodied Jake asks her if she was hurt by the man and later asks if she slept with him. I didn't realize that. Well, because my family are alive. Jake, in a fit of jealousy, attacks the oil worker (off screen) and is eventually let go by Krystal, who informs Star that hes been sleeping with all the girls hes recruited for her.Despite all of the negativity, director Arnold attempts to make her protagonist more sympathetic when she shows Star buying groceries for a bunch of kids in a rundown area in Rapid City, South Dakota. He's a skeleton. common song. makes her feature debut confidently, never feeling like shes performing as I'm sorry. Its around this time that Jake reveals he has a stash of jewellery that hes stolen from various potential customers at the houses he visits, which he eventually plans to sell in order to purchase a house. It is also possible to buy "American Honey" on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Star asks for a thousand and performs sexually for the money. it. So she knocks on Krystal's motel room door, and Krystal starts, like, telling her what to do. They want something from me. The crew arrive at a suburban neighborhood. Oh no! All rights reserved. ARNOLD: I don't know. And I think the mystery in films is really important. The new movie "American Honey," which won the Jury Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, was written and directed by my guest Andrea Arnold. ARNOLD: A little bit. I'm interested in your approach to casting especially the casting of the teenagers who were not professional actors. There were shows that I hadn't heard of because I don't think they've been on in the U.S. LaBeouf has a ragged energy. The girl appears to be about15, but we can see shes already halfway out the door to Spring Break. Even when they stop at a motel to break, they use the chance to dance in the parking lot. Arnold had been developing the part for someone else, but because she had some difficult circumstances at home, she couldnt do it. Two days after the other actress dropped out and with only a few weeks before shooting would commence Arnold got on a plane to Panama City, Florida. And then I was thinking, well, Crystal - what's she doing? What are we doing when we get there? Copyright 2016 NPR. Instead, thanks to its commitment to- and obvious love for the subject, and its sometimes comedic, sometimes very raw and sensitive little beats, it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. You know, like, what have I - what's happening? I'm sorry. The film stars Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf and Riley Keough. You were a dancer - right? Andrea Arnold, the British filmmaker who became a critics darling with movies like Fish Tank and Wuthering Heights, has directed American Honey in a style that might be described as hip-hop Dardenne brothers. ARNOLD: Some people get a magazine, some people don't. Wouldnt you know it but Jake shows upmistakenly believing that the cowboys are taking advantage of Starand robs them at gunpoint. Sometimes I don't go out in the very beginning. ARNOLD: I mean, I do this pretty much on almost all my films. That's my understanding. GROSS: Realizes that she's probably poor and unrooted. They have great taste in pop culture, and guess what? 2023 Variety Media, LLC. Soon afterward shes picked up by three middle-aged Texas cowboys who agree to buy a large amount of her magazines if shes willing to swallow a worm from the bottom of a glass of Mezcal (a strong Mexican alcoholic beverage). Both are guilty of armed robbery (I wonder why the police werent looking for both of them after the cowboy caper) and Jake is certainly guilty of assaulting the oil worker. And in "American Honey," the way out is joining this magazine crew. And that's how we actually found Sasha. The crew arrive at a motel. want to do and what were ready for, as phrased in the song that gives Andrea GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is Andrea Arnold. The crew is dropped off at the new neighborhood to make a sell. 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? It must have been hilarious to watch. Lanes innate depth and charisma carries American Honey, and explodes in the hormonal throes of first love when her Star meets Jake (Shia LeBeouf), the number 2 Arnold began writing the screenplay in 2013 and it was first announced under the pre-production title Mag Crew at Film4's 2013 Cannes Film Festival party. Like for this film, they went out to like county fairs or they go to Wal-Mart, and they would just sit around and like look for people that might be the right kind of people for the film. But I just went for it. She's got a boat load of stuff. Here we go. Still, she wastes too much time (the film clocks in at around a lugubrious two and a half hours)covering her mindless magazine subscription agents as they boorishly interact inside their van heading to one city after another. They flirt and charm their way into selling a product that no one really wants. American Honey is a 2016 road drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold. The film stars Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf and Riley Keough. American Honey follows Star (Lane), a young girl from a troubled home, who runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling magazine subscriptions door to door. LABEOUF: (As Jake) That's a bunch of [expletive], all that. So it was kind of a mixed thing. widescreen vistas of the heart of the country, but its effective because it [41] The soundtrack was released digitally by UMe on September 30, 2016. the group after random encounters across the country. Andrea Arnolds American Honey features numerous mise-en-scnes in which the American flag is billowing in the wind. They really just do it enough to get food and lodging so they can keep doing Academy Slaps Down New Rules After Andrea Riseborough, Tom Cruise, Michelle Yeoh Controversies We all remember those years when we couldnt sit stillwhen GROSS: You seem particularly interested in making movies about teenagers and - in the hopes that you might be able to answer this (laughter) - I'm going to ask you why the teenage years are especially interesting for you? The songs were compiled by producer Julia Oh, music supervisors Earworm Music, Andrea Arnold, and the films cast. I don't want them to feel kind of weirded out by us, you know. Star I suppose recognises that Jake is a quintessential bad boy and agrees to have sex with him, consummating their burgeoning romance. "American Honey" is a coming-of-age drama film directed by Andrea Arnold and written by Arnold, from a story by photographer and writer Larry Clark. The film stars newcomer Sasha Lane as Star, a young woman who joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and follows her journey as she navigates the challenges of life on the road. The characters in American Honey have cut themselves loose from their parents (the implication is that they probably had good reason to i.e., they came from abusive households), and because they make cash with their magazine semi-scam, the result is that theyre free. Or, as one of their favorite lyrics puts it: I make my own money, so I spend it how I like,/Im just living life,/And let my mama tell it, nigga,/I aint living right. Theyre free to fight, and smoke dope, and laugh like demons, and jump around naked in front of the campfire, and give each other the hugs they never got. Krystal dumps the girls off where oil workers are about to go to work in the morning. American Honey follows Star (Lane), a young girl from a troubled home, who runs away with a traveling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling magazine subscriptions door to door. It's drenched in color; it drips with it like, yes, honey. I just don't know why I'm like obsessed with this particular image or the story. American Honeys ending is ambiguous. So it's, you know - it's a really different way of casting (laughter). a cycle that the films ending implies could continue indefinitely. Learn More{{/message}}. That night, Krystal calls Star in and tells her that Jake has posted his lowest sales ever. Star and the kids follow Jake's crew into a K-Mart. [35] On 9 June, production was taking place in Omaha, Nebraska and Grand Island, Nebraska. How do you go looking for them when you're not putting out a casting call? The crew ends up living temporarily in a rundown house, and Jake and Star renew their relationship. And she stayed for a long time, and she had a lot of stories. people, led by a flirtatious Jake (Shia LaBeouf), offer a way out for Star. I've always found ways to dance, however, you know, wherever life has taken me. And that was it, she was gone. GROSS: Andrea Arnold, welcome to FRESH AIR. During this time, she worked on the second draft of the script and used the opportunity to meet with potential casting directors. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. This is a not a film tied to plot. The stars of the film include Riley Keough, who plays the magazine crew's hardened boss, and Shia LaBeouf, who's her enforcer and most smooth-talking salesmen. And I get really into it, so I go out, too. I'm trying to get my life back together. An essential element of youth is movement. The movie is a bulletin seductive, alarmed, fascinated told from the inside. They dont sell their bodies, but in a way they do: Most of them are striking-looking in a trashed-runaway vagabond skate-punk way, and they use their pierced-and-tattooed street charisma to evoke pity and awe. 3.5. And Star says no. LABEOUF: (As Jake) And that's a power agent. So this movie is inspired by real magazine crews, like mag crews. And she's also showing the teenage girl, who's now part of the crew, that she's going to be dominated, too. Carnage, iLoveMakonnen, D. Blackmon & M. Sheran. GROSS: Oh, it's fake tan. 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. But I've never been trained in any way. So we showed them things. Theyre pretty damn nice. It looks a lot like the scraggly last stand of teen rebellion. [18], Arnold "street cast" by searching beaches, streets, and approaching drunk teenagers. Soon, bad boy Jakes sales performance begins to suffer due to being distracted by the sexy Star, but shes determined to prove she can outsell him. Rated R So if I'm a G, I'm going to figure out what that something is, and I'm going to work that. Basically, as soon as they open the door and look at you, that's the critical moment. ARNOLD: When we were casting it was a different thing. And I'm trying to unravel it and work it out. (Hustling, it turns out, really is harder than making an honest living.) First song as Jake and his crew drive pass by Star. Each song is carefully chosen and perfectly integrated into the film, and the soundtrack as a whole provides a fitting accompaniment to the film's story. American Honey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Kiss Paul Stanley Has 'Thoughts' About Parents Who Support Kids Gender Identities 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. Its In the end, American Honey is 163 rambling and draining minutes, made up almost entirely of texture and detail. And that just seems so key, like, being seduced into it and then making sure that there's no one who's going to miss you to make sure that - that means that you're vulnerable and also that no one's going to come looking for you. ARNOLD: Some people can move one cheek different to the other. WhatSong is the worlds largest collection of movie & tv show soundtracks and playlists. So her new identity found at the end is only temporary. keeps us with our characters instead of visually wandering the landscape. I was about 18. Were any of them people who had been in a mag crew, selling magazines door to door? It shines in citrus-influenced cocktails or sipped as a digestif, but bourbon fans may find it too sweet and lacking complexity. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. People said, You know, hes trouble, dont go there, but Ive never much listened to anything like that. But where some might suspect Arnold cast him to capitalize or comment on his bizarre public persona, the filmmaker insists she wasnt even aware. And I feel like we overexplain everything in life, and I am desperate to leave a mystery in what I do. It's just such a great place to be. All right, let's go. ARNOLD: One of the - the one I did mostly, for a long time, I was very young when I started it. Why am I doing - you know, how did I get here? Krystal then has Jake put tanning lotion on her body as Star watches, and Star promises to improve. And I actually - I remember going for an audition for "Cats," which I thought, maybe all we have to do is go around the stage like a cat, you know, be like a cat. All rights reserved. [5][6][7] American Honey received positive reviews, with Lane's performance receiving critical praise and accolades along with those of LaBeouf and Keough. So, yeah, I can't talk about that. [13][14][15] In researching for the film, Arnold embarked on a road trip from California to Miami, Florida. Tucker Carlson Bashes Fox Nation in Leaked Video, Whats so powerful about American Honey is how it encompasses both that excitement of youth and the anxious, on-the-margins world of its characters both of which Arnold was keen on coexisting in the movie. And I thought it might be a way of - I'd been kind of done a lot of acting at school. grilling meat by a pool, oil fields blazing at night, a trucker listening to How do they - they have themes and they want to make a theme about theirs. [60][61][62] Variety placed Sasha Lane's performance in the film at number 3 on their list of the 9 breakout performances of the 2016 Toronto Film Festival. Nathan is singing along to this song in another room as Star and the kids sneak out the house. The real find here is Lane, who Thats a question that adults have been asking ever since the teenager was invented as a stand-alone demographic entity, sometime in the early 40s. 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. In late 2013, Arnold was the Filmmaker-in-Residence at the New York Film Festival. After a break, we'll hear from the creator of the FXX comedy series "You're The Worst," Stephen Falk and the series co-star Aya Cash. And so it's this really strange power scene where the Krystal character, the crew manager, is showing her power over the Shia LaBeouf character.

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