A24 has launched the trailer for its Sundance Movie Competition darling “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.” The Rose Byrne-led dramedy from writer-director Mary Bronstein is about to hit theaters Oct. 10.
The movie’s official logline reads, “Together with her life actually crashing down round her, Linda makes an attempt to navigate her baby’s mysterious sickness, her absent husband, a lacking individual and an more and more hostile relationship together with her therapist.”
Starring alongside Byrne are Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Delaney Quinn, Mary Bronstein, Christian Slater and A$AP Rocky.
Within the trailer, we see a frantic Byrne arguing together with her therapist, performed by O’Brien. “I’m asking you what I’m purported to do! Are you able to hear me?” Byrne screams. O’Brien responds in a patronizing tone, “I would really like you to get a very good night time’s sleep.”
Selection movie critic Peter Debruge praised “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” following its world premiere at Sundance. In his review, he described the movie as “a virtuosic portrait of psychological unraveling that makes use of each software within the director’s arsenal to re-create an end-of-the-world feeling on essentially the most intimate scale. Delivering a feverish, raw-nerve efficiency certain to go down as one of many yr’s greats, Byrne has by no means had a job even remotely this intense to arrange us for the emotional acrobatics her writer-director has in retailer.”
After its Sundance run, the movie went to the Berlin Movie Competition, the place Byrne gained the Silver Bear for finest lead efficiency.
Sara Murphy, Ryan Zacarias, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Eli Bush, Conor Hannon and Richie Doyle function producers. Govt producers embrace Byrne and Mary Bronstein.
Try the trailer beneath.
