Sundance: Directed by "Challengers" actress Hailey Gates, "Atropia" gives the War on Terror it's own take on "The Truman Show ...
An aspiring actress in an army role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier in Hailey Gates' feature debut, which also ...
Set in a fake town, Hailey Gates’ feature debut 'Atropia,' premiering at Sundance, has fun, insightful ideas, though it ...
In writer-director Hailey Gates' directorial debut 'Atropia', she dives into the Bush-era culture of toxic masculinity, ...
It isn’t the greatest satire ever made, but Gates’ feature is like a one-stop shop for mockery and education with some fun in ...
Hailey Gates turned her Miu Miu "Women's Tales" short film into a Sundance feature, starring Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner.
Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz ... bearing a very familiar logo. Meanwhile, Chloë Sevigny and Tim Heidecker give brilliantly detached performances as sleazy military directors Pina and Hayden.
The film expands on Gates’ assured short Shako Mako, which observes a similar character (also played by Shawkat ... played by Tim Heidecker and Chloë Sevigny in strong but too-brief turns.
Like Gates’ short, “Atropia” opens with a near-identical scene of an Iraqi woman played by Alia Shawkat ... from a boardroom (Tim Heidecker, Chloë Sevigny). Tongue-in-cheek training ...