#37. Lola Versus – Daryl Wein
This might be the year where writer-director David Wein gets to showcase his skillset in January instead of March. A SXSW regular (2008’s Sex Positive and 2009’s Breaking Upwards), Wein has parlayed a rising indie career with co-consiprator Zoe Lister-Jones into a Fox Searchlight backed production — the distributor bought the project at the script phase and set him up with old school thesps Bill Pullman and Debra Winger and the next gen in Hamish Linklater and Greta Gerwig. With the film currently in post, we think there is a good chance for Lola Versus to show up in Park City.
Gist: Scripted by Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones, this tells the story of Lola (Gerwig), a 29-year-old woman dumped by her longtime boyfriend Luke (Kinnaman) just three weeks before their wedding. With the help of her close friends Henry (Linklater) and Alice (Lister-Jones), Lola embarks on a series of desperate encounters in an attempt to find her place in the world as a single woman approaching 30.
Producers: Jocelyn Hayes and Michael London
(IONCINEMA.com Preview Page // IMDB Link)
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