Ayo Edebiri's new movie confirms UK release date
Ayo Edebiri's The Sweet East is finally getting released in the UK.
This surrealist road movie directed by Sean Price Williams will be available from Friday, March 29.
The film is described as a "picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the US undertaken by Lillian (played by Talia Ryder of West Side Story), a high school senior from South Carolina who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington DC."
The synopsis adds: "Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions that proliferate the present-day unreality of contemporary life."
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The Sweet East's UK arrival has been a long time coming after it premiered at last year's Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section.
As well as The Bear favourite Edebiri and Ryder, its cast features Saltburn actor Jacob Elordi, Red Rocket's Simon Rex and Earl Cave, son of musician Nick Cave.
The movie was well received by critics, with Variety's Catherine Bray writing in her review: "While this is certainly a film that should play decently on initial release and likely signifies the start of a busy new chapter in DP-turned-director Williams' career, it's potentially got longterm appeal too: You can easily imagine it programmed alongside the likes of American Honey, Badlands, The Doom Generation or Gummo in a retrospective about disaffected young Americans and the often peculiar country they hail from."
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The Hollywood Reporter's Lovia Gyarkye added: "The Sweet East moves energetically, which, initially, adds to its allure. Williams works in the same cool and intimate style here as he does in his other projects, which include cinematography for the Safdie brothers' Good Time, Owen Kline's Funny Pages and music videos for Brockhampton and A$AP Rocky.
"There's a beauty to the grittiness of The Sweet East and to the way that Williams renders the familiar: The American landscape — whether it's the washed stone monuments of Washington DC, the great green densities of New Jersey or the gray sidewalks of New York — is a dreamy vision."
It currently holds a solid 77% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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