The Great Pretender

Name: The Great Pretender
Genre: Drama
Released: December 6, 2018
Duration: 71 min
Cast: Bruce Smolanoff, C. Mason Wells, Craig Mums Grant, Danelle Eliav, Emilie McDonald

2018

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Factory 25 | Release Date: December 6, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Bruce Smolanoff, C. Mason Wells, Craig Mums Grant, Danelle Eliav, Emilie McDonald, Esther Garrel, Julian Grady, Keith Poulson, Linas Phillips, Maëlle Poesy-Guichard

Summary: Trying to exorcise her past, lovesick French director Mona comes to America to mount a play based on her last relationship: a tumultuous affair with hard living street photographer Nick. For the on-stage rendition of her real-life story, Mona casts seemingly naïve French actress Thérèse to play herself and bumbling Brooklynite Chris to playTrying to exorcise her past, lovesick French director Mona comes to America to mount a play based on her last relationship: a tumultuous affair with hard living street photographer Nick. For the on-stage rendition of her real-life story, Mona casts seemingly naïve French actress Thérèse to play herself and bumbling Brooklynite Chris to play Nick. Mona develops feelings for Chris, Chris falls madly in love with Mona, while Thérèse falls in love with Chris.… Expand

Director: Nathan Silver

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 71 min

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The Playlist Warren Cantrell

Mar 28, 2019

A magnificent, tight exploration of romance and what it means to walk that path wearing blinders. Most people have done this at one point or another, and Silver’s triumph is that he’s crafted a film that puts his audience both inside of this, but also at a distance where it can be appreciated. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Dec 4, 2018

The Great Pretender has its share of dark punchlines, but its central concern is a sympathetic one: what we see in other people and how we would like to see ourselves. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Dec 6, 2018

Some of the details about female characters that Silver and the screenwriter Jack Dunphy choose to foreground...indicate that the filmmakers share with their male characters a strain of artsy-bro misogyny. The movie is nevertheless striking and stimulating in some respects. Read full review

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