Released · May 7, 2021

Mainstream

A Film by Gia Coppola

Starring Andrew Garfield · Maya Hawke · Nat Wolff · Jason Schwartzman · Johnny Knoxville and Alexa Demie
Written by Gia Coppola & Tom Stuart  ·  Directed by Gia Coppola  ·  Distributed by IFC Films

The Story

Los Angeles, now. Frankie tends bar, films fragments of her life, and waits for something to happen. Then she meets Link — a magnetic stranger who owns no phone, scorns the internet, and performs his contempt for the mainstream like a one-man revival act.

She puts him on camera. The videos go viral, "No One Special" becomes a sensation, and the satire starts eating its satirists. Gia Coppola's follow-up to Palo Alto — produced with Artemis Pictures and American Zoetrope — is a cautionary fable about fame in the algorithm era, carried by a ferocious Andrew Garfield performance.

"Captures the excitement and discord of the current social media environs."

Arianna Bocco · IFC Films

The film had its world premiere in the Orizzonti section of the 2020 Venice Film Festival and was selected for Telluride the same year.

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