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Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #16. Miguel Arteta’s Duck Butter

Published on February 1, 2018

Duck Butter

The cerebral, analytical, politically charged Beatriz at Dinner might have been a turning point for Miguel Arteta, and we’re feeling that a new mantra and curriculum might have extended itself to micro indie Duck Butter. Stamped as an experimental comedy, Arteta collaborated with Alia Shawkat, who toplines and also receives her first credit as a scribe. Shot in September of 2016 in just nine days, this might be off-the-wall bonkers in a great way.

Written by Arteta and Alia Shawkat, two women, who dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating and relationships, decide to make a pact to spend 24 hours together and have sex on the hour, every hour hoping to create a new way to create intimacy. Shawkat, Laia Costa, Mark and Jay Duplass star.

Release Date/Prediction: We were thinking Sundance, perhaps Tribeca or even maybe a Cannes sidebar with the Laia Costa factored in it.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).