2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Baena’s Spin Me Round

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It was pasta, wine, and a the Leaning Tower of Pisa type backdrop for the cast of goofballs assembled for Jeff Baena‘s five feature film. Starring Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Alessandro Nivola, Molly Shannon, Lil Rel Howery, Tim Heidecker, Ben Sinclair, Fred Armisen and Ayden Mayeri, production on Spin Me Round  began in the month of May and you’d think that this is en route to Park City as Baena’s brand of humor is well liked by Sundance programmers – as all four of his feature films in Life After Beth (2014), Joshy (2016), The Little Hours (2017), Horse Girl (2020) have premiered there. Baena wrote the screenplay and produced with Brie.

Gist: Brie plays the manager of the Bakersfield, California franchise of the Italian chain eatery Tuscan Grove. She wins an all-expenses trip to the company’s gorgeous “institute” outside of Florence, Italy, and the chance to meet the restaurant chain’s wealthy and charismatic owner (Nivola). Along with a mismatched group of local American franchise managers, Amber finds a far different adventure than the romantic fantasy she had imagined.

Production Co./Producers: Jeff Baena, Alison Brie, Peter Oberth, Duplass Brothers Productions’ Mel Eslyn.

Prediction: PREMIERES.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBA (domestic,international).

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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