Sundance Snap: Whiplash Retains the Park City Spirit

The opening-night premier at Sundance was terrific with a 28 year old director Damien Chazelle with his first creation Whiplash debuting. The movie tells the story of an ambitious jazz-drummer prodigy who bumps up against an intimidating tyrant of a music Damien Chazelle at Sundanceteacher. While Miles Teller plays the mentee, the bald, bad-ass mentor is played by J.K. Simmons. Simmons played a cruel taskmaster who bludgeons his students with torrents of mocking, often homophobic in his mission to create true genius. He was effortless and excellent in his performance. Whiplash won a Sundance price for Best Short film last year. It was as a small sample created to woo the potential investors to produce the movie. And, this year it got a prime Sundance showcase is a great tribute to Chazelle’s crew, and an honor to the festival’s spirit. Sony Pictures picked the distribution rights for some international markets.

Sankha Ghosh

About Sankha Ghosh

Sankha Ghosh was never born in that 'City of Joy', never was a banker, never watched a Godard, never loved Kafka, never fell for that Solitary Reaper, never danced on a friend’s wedding, never fought for human rights, never had a crush at college and never ever aspired to work on a novel! Never was he as simple as this! #He wishes
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