Drawing upon years of sketch comedy experience, these filmmakers made a hilarious pandemic comedy for SXSW. I'm a firm believer that art should reflect life, even when life kinda sucks, like it has for the past year during COVID-19. Everyone joked last spring about how many coronavirus screenplays would come out of quarantine, but to be honest, the saturation hasn't been that high. We've gotten gems like Recovery at SXSW 2021, stories full of heart and populated by characters who are struggling to figure things out just like the rest of us. In Recovery, sisters Jamie (Whitney Call) and Blake Jerikovic (Mallory Everton) have their lives turned upside down at the start of lockdown. When they learn their Nana (Anne Sward Hansen) is in danger at her COVID-infested nursing home, they decide to brave the wide world on a pandemic road trip to save her. The film captures something nostalgic about the beginning of the pandemic. The uncertainty. The nerves. The obsessive sanitizing. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 18 March, 2021