It would appear that Gia Coppola‘s Mainstream (IFC Films, 5.7.21) is dead meat, having been murdered last September by Venice Film Festival critics.
What gets me about the trailer is that 40-year-old Jason Schwartzman, who played the precocious 15-year-old Max Fischer in Wes Anderson‘s Rushmore (’98), is playing the older, wiser, sensible college professor while Andrew Garfield, 37, is playing the young, egoistic, wild-ass social media guy, and he’s less than three years younger than Schwartzman.
Actors inhabit what they can inhabit and sell what they can sell, but it feels vaguely odd that Schwartzman is suddenly the middle-aged guy.
