'Cat Person' unsurprisingly had Sundance viewers buzzing after the Emilia Jones/Nicholas Braun vehicle was screened in Park City.
“‘Cat Person’ is all I want to talk about,” a young woman filmmaker wrote in a massive Sundance Film Festival group chat I’m in after its premiere Saturday night, accompanied by an emoji of a face with tears in its eyes. “I have very strong opinions haha,” someone else wrote back.
between reality and Margot’s violent visions of being in constant danger, just by virtue of being a woman. Every walk home alone at night and every touch of the arm carries the potential for harm, with Heather McIntosh’s score adding a heightened sense of dread. third act, which plays out what happens after the gut-punch ending of Roupenian’s story, when Robert lashes out at Margot over text after she ghosts him. Nuanced it is not, but it is a fascinating adaptation of what seemed to be un-film-able source material that takes place mostly over text and in Margot’s head.
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