Thursday, January 29, 2015

Meet the 2015 Sundance Filmmakers #58: Anouk Whissell Brings Post-Apocalyptic Fun With 'Turbo Kid'

In a decimated, post-apocalyptic world (the year is 1997), the orphaned Kid struggles through drought and a nuclear winter, traveling the Wasteland on his BMX, hunting for scraps to trade for a drop to drink. When his always cheerful, pink-haired new best friend Apple is kidnapped by a minion of the evil overlord Zeus, the Kid channels the courage of his comic book hero and prepares to enact justice unto Zeus, his buzzsaw-handed sidekick Skeletron, and their savage masked army. Complemented by a pitch-perfect synth score and saucy, clever period details, co-directors François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell craft a raucous retro-futuristic action comedy in the...



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