TASTE THE REVOLUTION
Genre
Drama and Comedy
Running time
86 minutes
Year
2024
Language
English
Subtitle
Arabic
Country
United States of America (USA)
Director
Daniel Klein
Bio
Producer
Phil Cohen, Maury Loeb, David Linke, Kevin Linke
Cast
Mahershala Ali, Colin Trevorrow, Alexander Bilu, Jeremy Dubin, Jen Nails, Jeremy Beiler
Scriptwriter
Daniel Klein
SHOWTIME
Sat
07.
Dec
Culture Square - Cinema 3
8:45 PM - 10:16 PM
Price: 40 SAR
Mon
09.
Dec
Culture Square - Cinema 3
1:30 PM - 3:01 PM
Price: 40 SAR
For nearly 25 years one of Oscar winner's Mahershala Ali's earliest, craziest and most brilliant performances has been hiding in a vault. Director Daniel Klein shot a film in the year 2000 about a group of revolutionaries putting on a world summit to counter political apathy and encourage America to stand up to capitalism but then world events got in the way and the film vanished. Now, after a call from Ali, who plays a revolutionary leader, the director has gone back over the footage and reimagined the film as a mockumentary about a documentary film crew trying to capture an event that they hope will be a modern-day Woodstock, but turns out to be more Fyre Festival.
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