The Sweet East

A high-school senior escapes a Washington school trip and takes her own subversive journey through underground America, in this darkly comic travelogue.

  • Director

    Sean Price Williams

  • With

    Talia Ryder, Earl Cave, Simon Rex, Jacob Elordi and Ayo Edebiri

  • USA 2023. 104min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    18

  • A Utopia Distribution Release

Cinematographer Sean Price Williams’ feature directorial debut emulates the scuzzy vitality of his DOP work for the Safdie brothers (Good Time) and Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell). A walk on the wild side of Americana, it’s a sly, self-conscious, state-of-the-nation address, whose bizarre tangents and impasses are expertly channelled through the insouciant disaffection of Talia Ryder’s protagonist.

Leigh Singer, London Film Festival

Content warning

Contains graphic violence, distressing scenes.

Tickets on sale – Saturday 6 April to BFI Members from 12:00 and on general sale from 16:00.