Oscilloscope Romances ‘Exploding Girl’

After distributing So Yong Kim’s Treeless Mountain, Oscilloscope are barking up the same, family tree, adding her hubby’s Berlin Film Festival/Tribeca preemed film to the future slate. Bradley Rust Gray’s The Exploding Girl is set for a 2010 release.

Zoe Kazan plays Ivy, a twenty-year-old college student home in New York for spring break. She’s excited about a developing romance back at school and life is seemingly perfect. When her longtime friend Al finds himself without a place to stay during the break, Ivy and her mother take him in and Al and Ivy’s friendship strengthens while her boyfriend grows more and more distant. Increasingly distressed about her conflicting feelings, Ivy struggles to keep control, not wanting her overwhelming emotions to trigger her epilepsy.

Here’s how “filmmaking couples” bounce ideas off of one another. I imagine it may be the same way with Olivier Assayas and Mia Hansen-Løve.