Inspired by the real life “trad wife” movement, this story follows an influencer with a traumatic past who finds peace, love, and internet fame as a “traditional housewife” with her new husband. But when her mother goes missing after questioning her lifestyle, she’ll realize the kind and loving community she’s come to rely on harbors dark secrets. Teaming with her estranged sister, she’ll set out to uncover the truth, but breaking her “good wife” role could have deadly consequences.
Tran Quoc Bao succeeds in telling us a story about martial arts, human decay, and friendship. The originality shown by his filmmaking is admirable and brings fresh air to the classic Chinese martial arts genre.
It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.
We sat down with Writer/Director Albert Acosta to discuss his debut short film, (ha-ha), Acosta's foray into narrative cinema, and how his personal experiences have shaped his filmmaking philosophy.
What happens to an inseparable bond when love for competing morphs into competing for love?
A refreshing twist is that all the kids’ powers are…kind of useless. There’s a kid who can only move in slow motion, a kid who has every power in the world but can only use them randomly, and our main character Missy who has no powers at all. The thesis of the film seems to be that it doesn’t matter what kind of powers you have, its the way you use them, which is good for the warm and fuzzies.
Let it Snow in a nutshell, is a warmhearted coming of age teen Christmas movie.
