British director Sally Potter has made plans to re-release her 2009 film angerstarring Riz Ahmed, Lily Cole, Jude Law, and Judi Dench, as part of a series of posts on Instagram, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the film’s release.
Potter said the film will be shown across multiple posts “in real time” over the course of seven days, starting on February 23.
The film also stars Patrick J. Adams, Jacob Cedergren, John Leguizamo, Eddie Izzard, David Oyelowo, Dianne Wiest, Steve Buscemi, Adriana Barraza, Simone Abkarian, and Bob Balaban. The original concept in 2009 was to watch the movie on smartphones. Synopsis: Michelangelo, an unseen student armed only with a cell phone, goes backstage at a New York fashion show for seven days where a catwalk incident turns into a murder investigation, and his interviews with the key players become a thrilling story. A bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis.
The story unfolds frame by frame, during the week that Michelangelo films and publishes his interviews. The film is shot as a series of monologues to the camera. They will be released sequentially over the course of 7 days, with each snapshot as a new Instagram post, published throughout the day. The production believes this will be the first feature film to be released on Instagram.
“Rage is an exploration of the burgeoning power of social media and the generational gap between those born into a digital world and fluent in its rapidly evolving forms, and those for whom it remains a dark and opaque art,” Potter said.
“The environment—the competitive, narcissistic, economically unstable world of fashion with its meddlers, critics, models, designers, seamstresses, and publishers—is one made chaotic by celebrity madness. But it is also a world in which everyone, despite appearances to the contrary, is struggling with With insecurity and private terrorism.
On Thursday 29 February, when the Instagram release is complete, there will be a Q&A with Sally Potter and the cast broadcast live on Instagram from the Rio Cinema in Hackney. anger The film is written and directed by Sally Potter and produced by Christopher Sheppard and Andrew Verberg for Adventure Pictures.
News of the reissue first appeared on Indiewire.