Cutting bodies. Purple blood. And Killer Unicorns. This is the recipe that made the “Death of Onicorn” one of the sudden discoveries at the SXSW Film & TV festival, as it was first shown on Saturday at a noisy reception.
The film is followed by the father and daughter Elliot and Ridley Kintner (Paul Road and Jenna Ortega), who visit his billionaire billionaire in Elliot Odel Leopold (Richard E. Grant) at his luxurious palace in the depths of the Canadian wilderness. To their fully shocked and disbelief, they accidentally struck the young rhinoceros on their way. Because they are in the middle of preserving nature, they packed the body to rent and bring it with them, in hope – to no avail – to keep Odel, his wife, the unclear Bellanda (Tea Leoni) and Layabout, his son Dilettante Shepard (Will Poulter).
Once Leopolds learns that the blood of Unicorn has recovered acne and Elliot allergies, they begin to harvest the animal’s body quickly to the properties of the miracle treatment – and they ignore Ridley’s stark warnings on how to fill the century, according to the Middle Ages, they are actually evil monsters.
At this stage, Unicorn’s parents appear, and they start ratifying Leopold’s security scientists and security personnel in pursuit of their child’s body. Writer and director Alex Schaaretmann, who was the first time in the auspicious outputs, the audience was rolling in courses of stupid laughter, terrified screaming, and victorious chants such as (the spoiler in alert, for the thing that happens in this type of film) is sent in strange ways.
“It was very fun, and you are famous, comrades – that was really special,” Leoni told the SXSW audience in a question and answer in the wake of the first show. Then I shouted to the PROP team for the movie: “They have recovered the courage for me. Isn’t this the sweetest thing?”
The relationship between Elliot and Ridley is the emotional center of the film, so it was surprising when Ortega said, “We started filming the movie after a day or two after we met.”
“Fortunately, we had experience,” added Road. “Gina is a daughter in real life, and I am in fact my father.”
The audience kept the highest and longest applause in favor of Anthony Carigan, who steals the film with its performance largely without words as it served the long Leopold, Grave.
“Wonderful lines,” Carigge said. “But moments of response to all these amazing actors and what they were doing, I had a ball. Sometimes you don’t need to say anything.”
Then Grant continued this non -serial: “Because I am the oldest person in this room, and there was no moral police in Hungary, and the fact that we had had collective sex on a daily basis …” The rest of the actors began to laugh, then Lenne Leoni embraced from behind and we started to support her, apparently a joke. Lioni soon peel off from Grant while smiling, and Ortega wandered on the ground.
When the supervisor asked the reason, she prepared the conversation to Carigin, saying that she and Roud “did not even realize that he had a Scottish accent” as a crocodile.
The “Death of the Century” opens in the theaters from A24 on March 28.
