“What version of yourself do you want to be?” Gillian Jacobs is requested in the trailer for “The Seven Faces of Jane.” In addition to starring, the “Community” alumna directs alongside Gia Coppola (“Palo Alto”), Xan Cassavetes (“Kiss of the Damned”), Boma Iluma (“Comfort”), Ryan Heffington (“Baby Driver”), Julian J. Acosta (“What Bitch?”), Ken Jeong (“The Hangover”), and Alex Takacs (“Under the God, Part 2”). Each section combines to make “The Seven Faces of Jane.”
The movie tells the story of Jane (Jacobs), a younger, devoted mom main a secular life — as she admits in the trailer, she “can’t remember the last time [she] felt free.” Jane’s adventures start after sending her baby to sleepaway camp. She embarks on a street journey the place she encounters a peculiar solid of characters and much more peculiar occasions, together with a stranger who calls her with an providing: “I have something new for you, something you’ll love,” she’s advised.
Another scene sees Jane confronting her doppelgänger when she inexplicably seems in the diner she’s in. “Wait a second, who are you?” she calls for. “I’m Jane, who are you?” her double retorts earlier than the previous Jane launches on the latter with a butter knife.
Amidst the weird encounters on the street, Jane – who “thinks about everybody else all the time” as a substitute of herself – additionally finds the lengthy overdue catharsis she’s been wanting. “That actually felt kinda good!” she says after screaming on a rooftop of a constructing.
“The Seven Faces of Jane” got here from a recreation of beautiful corpse performed by the administrators. All eight began off with the preliminary premise of the narrative however loved unrestricted inventive liberty in the style, tone, tempo, and extra characters of the movie. “They were encouraged to express their unique vision, creative spirit, and style as a director, and they worked without knowledge of what the others were doing,” a press launch explains. “Each segment of Jane’s journey was then joined together to form one, full-length feature film.”
Jacobs final appeared on “Winning Time: The Rise of the Laker’s Dynasty,” the HBO drama concerning the LA basketball franchise in the ‘80s. A doc she directed, “More Than Robots,” premiered at this year’s version of SXSW. It follows international groups of youngsters making ready for the 2020 First Robotics Competition.
Coppola’s final undertaking was “Mainstream,” a social media satire that premiered on the 2020 Venice Film Festival.
Cassavetes is understood for vampire romance “Kiss of the Damned,” which earned her the Grand Jury Prize on the 2013 Strasbourg Film Fest.
“The Seven Faces of Jane” hits theaters and VOD January 13.
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