The Sundance Film Festival opens on January 22nd . I haven’t seen any reports about nudity in movies premiering at the festival this year, but it’s safe to assume that some of the movies will contain nude scenes.
The list of last year’s movies premiering at the festival and containing nude scenes isn’t that long, but there were a few interesting titles.
The most talked about was White Bird in a Blizzard (
Shailene Woodley) and we also had I Origins (
Astrid Berges-Frisbey), Only Lovers Left Alive (
Tilda Swinton), Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac had a secret screening at the festival, German movie Feuchtgebiete (
Carla Juri) explored some weird sex fetishes...
I went trough this year's program and picked a few titles which I found interesting:
I Smile Back (
Sarah Silverman)
Plot: Laney Brooks does bad things. Married with kids, she takes the drugs she wants, sleeps with the men she wants...
There’s a promo photo of Sarah in the shower
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (
Olivia Cooke)
Plot: Greg Gaines is an awkward, self-deprecating high school student determined to coast through his senior year as anonymously as possible. Avoiding social interactions like the plague, Greg spends most of his time remaking wacky versions of classic movies with his only friend, Earl. Greg’s well-meaning mother intervenes, forcing him to befriend Rachel, a classmate who's been diagnosed with leukemia
Dope (
Zöe Kravitz)
Plot: A coming of age comedy/drama for the post hip hop generation.
Stockholm, Pennsylvania (
Saoirse Ronan)
Plot: A young woman, kidnapped when she was a child, returns home to the family she barely remembers and struggles to feel at home.
Results (
Cobie Smulders)
Plot: Cobie stars in the role of a fitness instructor who gets a new wealthy client.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Bel Powley)
Plot: A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
The Overnight (
Taylor Schilling,
Judith Godreche)
Plot: Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, have recently moved to Los Angeles's Eastside from Seattle. Feeling lost in a new city, they are desperate to find their first new friends. After a chance meeting with Kurt at the neighborhood park, they gladly agree to join family pizza night at his home. But as it gets later and the kids go to bed, the family “playdate” becomes increasingly more revealing as the couples begin to open up.
The Stanford Prison Experiment (
Olivia Thirlby)
Plot:Twenty-four male students out of seventy-five were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.
Experimenter (
Winona Ryder,
Taryn Manning)
Plot:
Famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, in 1961 conducted a series
of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness
to obey authority.
Z for Zachariah (
Margot Robbie)
Plot:In the wake of a disaster that wipes out most of civilization, a young woman who believes she is the last human on Earth meets a dying scientist searching for survivors. Their relationship becomes tenuous when another male survivor appears. As the two men compete for the woman's affection, their primal urges begin to reveal their true nature.
The Summer of Sangaile (Julija Steponaityte, Aiste Diržiute)
Plot: 17 years old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at a summer aeronautical show. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds the only person that truly encourages her to fly.
Knock Knock (
Lorenza Izzo and
Ana de Armas)
Plot: A pair of femme fatales wreak havoc on the life of a happily married man (Keanu Reeves)
Reversal (Tina Ivlev)
Plot: A young girl, chained in the basement of a sexual predator, escapes and turns the tables on her captor.
Hellions (Chloe Rose)
Plot: A teenager must survive a Halloween night from Hell when malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door.
It Follows (
Maika Monroe)
Plot: For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter...
The Tribe (Yana Novikova)
Plot: Sergey, a new student at a boarding school for the deaf, must navigate through the institution’s social hierarchy, led by a gang of students reveling in crime and prostitution. Initially shunned, he is eventually initiated into the crew, inheriting the role of pimp to two giddy best friends.
Brooklyn (
Saoirse RonanPlot:In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Digging for Fire (
Anna Kendrick,
Brie Larson,
Rosemarie DeWitt,
Melanie Lynskey)
Plot: ...Tim invites his buddies over, and a “boys-will-be-boys” scenario ensues, full of drinking, awkward joint-passing, and perhaps getting a bit too close to a girl who isn’t the mother of his child...
I Am Michael (
Emma Roberts)
Plot: A gay activist and magazine founder (James Franco) is 'saved' from his homosexuality after turning to God... and meeting
Lila & Eve (
Viola Davis,
Jennifer Lopez)
Plot: Two distraught mothers, whose children were gunned down in a drive-by, team up to avenge their deaths after local authorities fail to take action.
Mistress America (
Greta Gerwig,
Lola Kirke)
Plot:A lonely college freshman's life is turned upside down by her impetuous, adventurous soon-to-be stepsister.
Sleeping With Other People (
Alison Brie,
Amanda Peet,
Natasha Lyonne)
Plot:A good-natured womanizer and a serial cheater form a platonic relationship that helps reform them in ways, while a mutual attraction sets in.
Ten Thousand Saints (
Hailee Steinfeld)
Plot:Set in the 1980s, a teenager from Vermont moves to New York City to live with his father in East Village.
True Story (
Felicity Jones)
The End of the Tour (
Anna Chlumsky)
Zipper (
Lena Headey,
Dianna Agron)
Plot: A family man who has it all until he risks losing everything due to his inability to fight off his obsessive temptation for other women. Dianna stars in the role of a high class escort.