It Doesn't Matter | |
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Directed by | Josh Mond |
Screenplay by | Josh Mond Oscar Bodden Gonzalez Alice de Matha |
Produced by | Alice de Matha
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Edited by | Alice de Matha |
Music by | Clams Casino |
Animation by | Anthony F. Schepperd |
Production company | CHMOND Inc
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Running time | 86 minutes |
Countries | United States France |
Language | English |
It Doesn't Matter is a 2024 film from Josh Mond, starring Christopher Abbott and Jay Will. The film premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival on 16 May 2024.
The film studies the relationship between Alvaro, from Staten Island, and a young filmmaker over the course of seven years, during a journey across the United States. [1]
Mond told Indie Wire of his plans for the film in 2015, the year of his previous feature film James White . [2] The film stars Christopher Abbott and Jay Will. [3] Both character films his life with a mobile phone which Mond told Variety was designed to be "therapy for both of them. I wanted it to feel as real as possible, and show both characters’ perspectives." [4] The actors shot some scenes themselves, as did Alice de Matha, the films co-writer and editor, the co-producer George Beno and co-writer Oscar Bodden Gonzalez, with the shots mixed together. Mond worked for six years in collaboration with Anthony F Schepperd, as well as London-based company Blind Pig, on the animation within the film. [5]
The film featured at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival parallel section Acid, run by France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (Acid). [6]
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