The road trip movie is tailor-made for the journey of self discovery; more so perhaps in North America, where the distances are long, the population sparse, and the lack of anything to do besides face yourself dominates. This can be even more important when those on the journey are strangers, each with a different goal and reaching for something seemingly unattainable. Both the journey and the destination matter, even if the result is unexpected. Unidentified Objects falls into the 'odd couple road trip' subgenre, but rather than the tyipical broad comedy tone, evokes a more off-kilter, fantastical atmosphere. In their feature debut, director Juan Felipe Zuleta and writer Leland Frankel work very hard to weave this tale, but perhaps sometimes can't see the forest for...
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- 10/15/2022
- Screen Anarchy
Stars: Matthew Jeffers, Sarah Hay, Kerry Flanagan, Hamish Allan-Headley | Written by Juan Felipe Zuleta, Leland Frankel | Directed by Juan Felipe Zuleta
By a strange twist of scheduling, the first couple of films from Fantastic Fest, Unidentified Objects and Everyone Will Burn, have something in common, they both have main characters who have dwarfism. It’s the kind of coincidence that, while meaningless in the real world, would probably mean something significant in the strange world where Unidentified Objects takes place.
Along with being a dwarf, Peter is gay and currently unemployed. He’s also tired of his treatment for being different and tends to avoid people. That doesn’t stop Winona from knocking on his door asking for a favour, a ride to Canada. It seems the aliens who abducted her when she was fifteen are coming back for her and she needs to meet them. I guess they couldn...
By a strange twist of scheduling, the first couple of films from Fantastic Fest, Unidentified Objects and Everyone Will Burn, have something in common, they both have main characters who have dwarfism. It’s the kind of coincidence that, while meaningless in the real world, would probably mean something significant in the strange world where Unidentified Objects takes place.
Along with being a dwarf, Peter is gay and currently unemployed. He’s also tired of his treatment for being different and tends to avoid people. That doesn’t stop Winona from knocking on his door asking for a favour, a ride to Canada. It seems the aliens who abducted her when she was fifteen are coming back for her and she needs to meet them. I guess they couldn...
- 9/27/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
When “Unidentified Objects” filmmaker Juan Felipe Zuleta found himself in isolation with the world around him shut down during the height of the pandemic, he and screenwriter Leland Frankel turned to storytelling to transform their “helplessness” to a haven for people, who, like Zuleta, live in liminal spaces.
“Locked in apartments, it was a lot of depression, a lot of anxiety, a lot of… helplessness, and almost a little bit of hatred towards the world for everything that’s going on,” Zuleta told TheWrap. “And eventually, we started developing the story, out of almost necessity, to tell something that expressed… how we were feeling at that moment.”
“Unidentified Objects,” which premieres this week at Outfest Los Angeles, follows Peter, “a flamboyant, misanthropic dwarf hiding from the world,” and his alien-obsessed neighbor, Winona, who forces Peter out of his comfort zone on an impromptu road trip to rural Canada, where she...
“Locked in apartments, it was a lot of depression, a lot of anxiety, a lot of… helplessness, and almost a little bit of hatred towards the world for everything that’s going on,” Zuleta told TheWrap. “And eventually, we started developing the story, out of almost necessity, to tell something that expressed… how we were feeling at that moment.”
“Unidentified Objects,” which premieres this week at Outfest Los Angeles, follows Peter, “a flamboyant, misanthropic dwarf hiding from the world,” and his alien-obsessed neighbor, Winona, who forces Peter out of his comfort zone on an impromptu road trip to rural Canada, where she...
- 7/18/2022
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
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