What Happened Was...
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AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE OF THE NEW 4K RESTORATION
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Overview
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Screenwriting Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, What Happaned Was... is the directorial debut of Tom Noonan (who you might know from Manhunter, Heat, Synecdoche New York, Anomalisa, Mystery Train); a dark, honest vision of a first date and all the anxiety and dread that entails. Jackie (Karen Sillas) and Michael (Tom Noonan) are coworkers at a large law firm in New York City who decide to meet at her apartment for dinner one Friday night. Over the course of the evening these two lonely hearts try to impress and understand each other, uncomfortably revealing their honest selves.
“It's wildly heartbreaking and terribly funny. It means the world to me”
Why You Should See This Film
Favourited by Charlie Kaufman and Ti West, What Happened Was... is perhaps the most authentic real-time portrayal of how people actually behave and feel on a date: confused, anxious and not quite connecting, all the while subtly threatened by the raw possibility a stranger poses – don’t be fooled by it’s hilariously misleading home video trailer. Originally conceived as a play, Tom Noonan lifts this raw story off the stage with uniquely dynamic camerawork and choreography, navigating a small space cinematically and intuitively as the two characters shuffle about to change the subject. Hidden away on bad VHS copies and low-res rips for decades, we’re very happy to finally present the recent 4K restoration of this existentially stirring, grippingly awkward and heartbreakingly truthful work.
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