Golden Exits

Forum 2017

It’s April and Naomi has come to New York from Australia to work for Nick, an archivist cataloguing the materials belonging to his partner Alyssa’s dead father. Nick was given the job by her sister Gwen; both are suspicious of Nick’s preference for female assistants. Naomi doesn’t know anyone in the city apart from her childhood acquaintance Buddy. He runs his own recording studio and employed Jess to run it; she later became his wife. Her best friend Sam is Gwen’s personal assistant; Gwen isn’t easy.
Naomi and Jess are in their twenties; Sam and Buddy in their thirties; Nick, Alyssa and Gwen in their forties; none of them are happy. It’s there in their faces, captured in tight close-ups which amplify the stubborn sense of discontent. Naomi’s arrival awakens things that could be, that might have been, that never will be. Each generation covets the other’s privileges while quietly forgetting its own. New York is even more beautiful as spring moves into summer, but the warm light doesn’t penetrate the cold interiors, which only grow darker. Naomi was always going to leave again and was always going to leave an impression, now it’s only about leaving with grace.

by Alex Ross Perry
with Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Jason Schwartzman, Chloë Sevigny, Mary-Louise Parker, Lily Rabe, Analeigh Tipton USA 2017 English 94’ Colour

With

Emily Browning (Naomi)
Adam Horovitz (Nick)
Jason Schwartzman (Buddy)
Chloë Sevigny (Alyssa)
Mary-Louise Parker (Gwendolyn)
Lily Rabe (Sam)
Analeigh Tipton (Jess)

Crew

Written and Directed by	Alex Ross Perry
Cinematography	Sean Price Williams
Editing	Robert Greene
Music	Keegan DeWitt
Sound Design	Ryan M. Price
Sound	Jim Morgan, Lion Thompson
Production Design	Fletcher Chancey, Scott Kuzio
Producers	Christos V. Konstantakopoulos Faliro House Productions, Alex Ross Perry, Adam Piotrowicz, Katie Stern Washington Square Films, Joshua Blum Washington Square Films, Craig Butta