Official Competition 2019

Lost Holiday

Michael y Thomas Matthews I 2019 I 78'

SYNOPSIS

Margaret and Henry are back home in Washington DC for the holidays. At a Christmas party of old high school friends, Margaret discovers that her ex boyfriend is now engaged. With her holiday mood ruined, Margaret and Henry ditch the party to go score some drugs. What starts as a night of debauchery evolves into a self-indulgent quest when the two friends become convinced that they are the only ones who can solve the kidnapping of a neighborhood socialite.

BIOGRAPHY

Michael y Thomas Matthews

MICHAEL AND THOMAS MATTHEWS (United States). Michael studied film at New York University. He previously produced Newlyweeds, winner of the 2014 Film Independent Someone to Watch Award. Thomas' credits include 3 seasons of HBO's The Newsroom, American Hustle and Joy. He is also a founding member of The Attic Theater Company.

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Critical text

This comedy, the first feature film by directors Michael and Thomas Matthews, about the refusal to assume adulthood, starts from a commonplace in American films, the return home of its main character, Margaret, to spend the Christmas holidays. Beyond this first premise, nothing will ever hit commonplace in the film again. Margaret’s wacky character perfectly matches the recklessness of her friend Henry. After a party with high school friends in which Margaret discovers that her ex-boyfriend will soon be a father, the two colleagues embark on a drug, alcohol and hangover spree. This drives them to become an exotic detective couple at their own risk. Lost Holiday is a dark and hilarious road movie, of reckless freedom, in which the characters rush to the void of the night streets, in the suburbs of Washington DC. NURIA CUBAS

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PROD., GUION Y DIRECCIÓN:
Michael y Thomas Matthews

FOTO:
Donavan Sell

INTÉRPRETES:
Kate Lyn Sheil, Thomas Matthews, Keith Poulson, William Jackson Harper, Ismenia Mendes, Tone Tank, Joshua Leonard, Isiah Whitlock Jr.