Natalie Portman won an Oscar for her incredible work in Darren Aronofsky’s 2010 film about an obsessive ballet dancer whose life falls apart while working on a production of Swan Lake. You kind of have to be an asshole not to like it. It’s really as crowdpleasing as comedies get. Gordon loosely adapt their story, with Nanjiani starring alongside Zoe Kazan. It’s not common for a breakthrough comedy to be so acclaimed and popular that it actually becomes an Oscar nominee for Best Screenplay, but The Big Sick is not a typical comedy (and Holly Hunter was robbed of a nomination too, by the way). That only captures a fraction of what this incredibly unique film is about - you have to see it to believe it. Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard star in the ambitious musical (with original songs by Sparks) about a couple who have a magical child named Annette.
Leos Carax’s first film in years dropped on Amazon Prime only a couple weeks after its theatrical premiere, and only about a month after it wowed audiences at Cannes.
