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Synopsis
Bobbie is determined to lose her virginity on the day of her 17 th birthday, but she will lose more than that. Serious, humorous, and intimate, THREE BIRTHDAYS follows a left-leaning, academic family in 1970 as each of its members wrestles with the contradictions of the sexual revolution in the era of the Vietnam War. When Bobbie discovers her mother’s infidelity and acts out furiously, she sets off a chain of confrontations that forces her father and mother to face their own insecurities as accomplished middle-class intellectuals. On each of their birthdays, hopes are dashed, and secrets revealed. Culminating on a day of national reckoning, the film sits right in the middle of that uncomfortable place where the personl and the political collide.
Bio
Jane Weinstock participated in the SUNDANCE DIRECTOR’S LAB. Her first feature EASY, received high praise from the Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan) and the New York Times (Anita Gates) and was shown at Sundance, Toronto, and numerous other festivals. An article in the Los Angeles Times (Carina Chocano) cited EASY as one of the few films that “get women right.” Since EASY, Weinstock has co-written (with Gloria Norris) and directed THE MOMENT, which stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alia Shawkat, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. THE MOMENT screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and received the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Carmel Film Festival. Weinstock has just completed the script for her next film, THREE BIRTHDAYS. Jane Weinstock graduated from Princeton University and attended graduate programs at the Slade (London), NYU and the Paris Film Program. She has taught at various institutions including NYU, UCLA and Cal Arts. She has written about film and about contemporary art in such publications as Camera Obscura and Art in America. She was also the film and video curator of Difference: On Representation and Sexuality at the New Museum (New York) and at the Institute of Contemporary Art (London).
Screening History
Woodstock Film Festival 2023
Credits
Actor - Josh Radnor
Actor - Annie Parisse
Director of Photography - Wolfgang Held
