Alice Englert makes her writing-directing feature debut with Bad Behaviour, a dark comedy starring Jennifer Connelly and Ben Whishaw. Returning from NZIFF for a nationwide theatrical run, we’re giving away in-season double passes—and one of those winners will also score themselves a Limited Edition cap.
Bad Behaviour
Here’s what it’s all about: Lucy, a former child actress, seeks healing from the traumas of her life. She embarks on a spiritual retreat, only for it to become anything but healing: she’s easily annoyed by the other attendees and wants attention from the retreat’s new-age guru Elon Bello. Even worse, she has become destructively obsessed with the retreat’s celebrity guest, a model named Beverly. As Beverly finds “enlightenment” easily, Lucy’s feelings of insecurity continue to rise to the surface. During this time, Lucy also tries to connect with her stunt performer adult daughter, Dylan who’s currently on set in New Zealand. Dylan’s falling into an obsession of her own: a bad romance with the main actor Elmore, whose insistence on doing his own stunts will have disastrous consequences. Brutal incidents in both women’s worlds force them to back together to confront their personal demons and their own relationship.
And here’s a look at the Limited Edition cap that one lucky person will score themselves, as modelled by one of the film’s stars Ana Scotney.
TO GET IN THE DRAW…
1. Sign-up to Flicks’ weekly email – What to Watch (if you are already signed-up, you’re halfway there).
2. Send us an email, with your postal address, to team@flicks.co.nz with ‘naughty mind’ in the subject line.
3. Await victory. Entries are open until midday, Thursday 9 November and winners will be contacted by email.
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