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Fresh from her remarkable hilarious
role in the movie “We’re The Millers” with Jennifer Aniston, Katherine
Hahn’s talent shines through in her first starring role in “Afternoon
Delight” about a stay at home mom whose sexual awakening came in her 30s when
everything looks just perfect.
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| Photo courtesy from Axinite digicinema |
Hahn plays Rachel, a quick-witted and lovable yet tightly coiled woman living
within the affluent Silver Lake neighborhood. At first glance, with their
chic modern home, successful husband, adorable child and a hipster wardrobe,
you’d think Rachel is living in full bliss until she felt the stabbing reality
of emptiness when left alone at home and ponders on her lackluster sex
life.
Spicing things up, she decides to visit a strip club and gets a private dance
from McKenna (played by Juno Temple) and something cracks open in Rachel.
Inspired by the experience, Rachel returns to the club to get to know McKenna,
soon after adopts her as a live-in nanny. This bold move unleashes
unimagined and colorful waves of change into Rachel’s life, marriage and
community.
Director Jill Soloway who came to prominence writing and producing episodes for
the hit television series “Six Feet Under” helms “Afternoon Delight” as her
directorial debut. Fresh from winning her Dramatic Directing Award in
this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Soloway shares that, “Beyond the comedic
and cinematic concepts that were on my mind, I made a few feminist choices
while writing. Often, when the Madonna/Whore trope turns up in popular
entertainment, the bad girl gets thrown under the bus or otherwise
metaphorically murdered so that the movie can fulfill a typical Hero’s Journey
plot. I am deeply interested in another possibility, a less-told Heroine’s
Journey that unravels in the shape of contiguous spirals. These interconnected
circles form an emotional roller coaster for the audience as we allow dual
protagonists to repeatedly switch places; both women veer through right and
wrong multiple times,” shares Soloway.
Soloway was moved by the idea of a female main character who could be an
unlikely, complicated and utterly real screw-up of a woman. Having seen
the Seth Rogens, the Jack Blacks and Albert Brooks as lovable but nebbish-y
wrong-headed male leads, with the women presented as beautiful and perfect and
interested in making great choices, Hahn’s role as Rachel in “Afternoon
Delight” aims to remind us that women want the same thing from movies that any
audience wants from life-- emotional honesty, raw comedy and the humanness of
true flaws.
Winning the Directing Award at Sundance 2013 was a complete shock and a huge
thrill for Soloway, “It is so validating. I’m so excited to share this film as
it premieres and travels the world. And as for the future, I can’t wait to do
this kind of work again and again.”
“It turns out everyone has lived the story about how easy it is to distract
yourself-- from yourself-- with an idea about helping. It can be easier for
people to open up when there’s a transaction-- financial or otherwise-- at
play. But the loudest, clangiest bell has been the notion of how hard it is to
keep having great sex in a long-term relationship. The moments of
self-recognition in our collaborators and audiences around this truth have been
revelatory. Ultimately, if this film were known for one thing, I’d want it to
be a loved, hilarious, and relatable exploration of marriage and relationship
in our highly connected, disconnected era,” concludes Soloway.
Rated R-16, “Afternoon Delight” is released and distributed from
Axinite Digicinema, Inc.
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