Kate Plays Christine — Trailer

source:   kateplayschristine.com, youtube.com

added: Wed, Aug 3rd '16

Actress Kate Lyn Sheil has appeared in a slew of indie films, including the home-invasion horror "You're Next." She most recently co-starred in the dystopian love story "Equals" with Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult. She also appeared in the TV version of Steven Soderbergh's "The Girlfriend Experience" and had a memorable character arc on season 3 of the Netflix series "House of Cards." She now takes on her most challenging role yet: herself -- well, sort of.

Kate Lyn Sheil plays a meta-version of herself as a young actress who is preparing to portray a real-life tragic figure in the new pseudo-documentary "Kate Plays Christine."

Implementing an ambiguous narrative device of an actress researching her next film role, writer-director Robert Greene seemingly creates an unsettling character study that explores the painfully sad and true story of Christine Chubbuck, an infamous 29-year-old Florida newscaster who committed suicide on air during a live broadcast in 1974.

Part investigative-documentary, part psychoanalysis, the meta-film follows "Kate," the actress, as she travels to Florida to retrace Chubbuck's footsteps in an attempt to get a better grasp of her identity and her troubling mindset.

After premiering to strong reviews at this year's Sundance Film Festival, "Kate Plays Christine" will be hitting theaters on August 24. Watch the film's trailer, above.

synopsis:
Filmmaker Robert Greene cleverly forgoes your standard talking-head-and-sound-bite approach to nonfiction storytelling, instead choosing to employ Kate Lyn Sheil as a conduit to understanding an impossibly complex issue. Committed to doing justice to Christine's life, Kate not only candidly pulls back the curtain on her acting process, but she also reveals the biases and presumptions even supposed experts can provide in their diagnosis. Kate Plays Christine boldly challenges its subjects and audience alike to accept that answers from the past are never easy.

 

directed by   Robert Greene

starring   Kate Lyn Sheil

release date   August 24, 2016 (in select theaters)