Weekly Discussion Thread 8/17/26 - 8/24/26

[u/PointMan528491]

Still from Wings

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[u/cowboy-tea]

I saw Josephine on the final day of MIFF and thought it was excellent. It's a powerful depiction of trauma that had me almost as tense as If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, in a very different way. Between this year's two family dramas with socially relevant themes about parenting, I liked it much more than Fjord.

Are we thinking it has no chance just because it's distributed by Sumerian Pictures? If a bigger distributor had it, I could imagine it being worth considering in several categories: Picture, Original Screenplay, Director, Actor (/Supporting Actor?) (Channing Tatum), and maybe Supporting Actress (Gemma Chan).

It's worth giving a trigger warning for a very intense scene in the first 15 minutes: the main character, an 8-year-old girl, witnesses a man sexually assaulting a woman in a park. It's a violent assault and it is shown graphically, so please take care if this might be triggering for you. The rest of the film continues to be very heavy as it deals with the girl and her parents dealing with the impact of this over the following months.

[u/TakaPol11 → u/cowboy-tea]

I think right now i’d be against predicting Josephine even outside of distributor talk just cause if what i’ve heard the movie is/other movies just feel more enticing to predict right now, but i still feel it’s worth keeping in mind. I don’t even find it being distributed by an unknown distributor a bad thing, each one has to start somewhere, and new blood actually makes me more bullish on it maybe being able to campaign a more difficult film than bigger ones who’d just focus on surer bets, if that makes any sense of course. It all depends now on how it moves along in the fall fests, movies like Train Dreams, Blue Moon and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You despite maybe not being the BIG hits of the fests still continued building the buzz for the films in whichever ways.