Hop Film Event: Honeyjoon (with director Lilian Mehrel '09 in person)
A surprisingly sexy, darkly funny, emotional rollercoaster about a mother-daughter trip. To a romantic island. For a grief anniversary. With a hot philosophical-surfer tour-guide.
A surprisingly sexy, darkly funny, emotional rollercoaster about a mother-daughter trip. To a romantic island. For a grief anniversary. With a hot philosophical-surfer tour-guide.
Lela (Amira Casar, Call Me By Your Name) and her sensual daughter June (Ayden Mayeri, Jackpot!) take a trip to a romantic island in the Azores, Portugal, one year after their major loss — with opposite ideas about why they're there, how to grieve, and how tiny June's bikini should be. Between happy honeymooners, the Woman Life Freedom movement, and their hot philosophical-surfer tour guide João (José Condessa, Turn of the Tide), they find each other… coming back to life.
Premiering at the Tribeca Festival, Lilian T. Mehrel's electric, emotionally layered debut film won the Tribeca Film Festival AT&T Untold Stories Award, multiple audience awards and was #1 on Vogue's list of standout films. Honeyjoon is for anyone who lives with loss. For anyone who wants to feel free in their body. For anyone who has tried, and failed, to flirt.
Discussion follows with director Lilian T. Mehrel '09.
