Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli
“For me, documentary and fiction are the same things,” says Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli. “They are all sets of tools and histories, and I want to pull from them all in order to develop my own way of viewing the world.” Rovinelli’s second feature, So Pretty, which premiered at this year’s Berlinale, bears this out: A group portrait of young people in various states of transition, it translates Ronald M. Schernikau’s 1980s German novel So Schön to contemporary New York. Politics unavoidably enter the film, but there’s a counterbalancing warmth to Rovinelli’s deceptively lowkey tone — big narrative turning points […]
by Vadim Rizov on Aug 27, 2019
