Raising kids is always a scary process. In many ways, despite their increasing competence, it gets scarier when they hit their teens, because that’s also the time when they start engaging much more with the world on their own. It’s understandable that many parents feel an urge to keep them close, to shelter them and to give them cautionary advice. The less external input they have, though, the easier it is for small misunderstandings to become magnified in bizarre and even dangerous ways.
Adam (co-writer Kimball Farley) – better known as Hippo, probably because of the toy hippo which he has carried around since childhood and uses as a masturbatory aid – and Boglárka (Lilla Kizlinger), better known by the English version of her name, Buttercup – have always been odd kids. Buttercup was adopted from Hungary after suffering family misfortune there. Her new father – Hippo’s first – passed...
Adam (co-writer Kimball Farley) – better known as Hippo, probably because of the toy hippo which he has carried around since childhood and uses as a masturbatory aid – and Boglárka (Lilla Kizlinger), better known by the English version of her name, Buttercup – have always been odd kids. Buttercup was adopted from Hungary after suffering family misfortune there. Her new father – Hippo’s first – passed...
- 8/1/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
An unusual family lives an unusual life in Mark H. Rapaport’s Hippo, one of the stranger films playing at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival. Rapaport drops us into a suburban dystopic home where society’s rules don’t seem to apply, and no subject is too taboo to elicit nervous laughter. Hippo (Kimball Farley) and his Hungarian adopted sister Buttercup (Lilla Kizlinger) share a troubling relationship with each other and their mother, Ethel (Eliza Roberts), as they approach adulthood wholly unprepared for the world outside their doors. A young man on the verge of adulthood, Hippo is an odd duck. He spends his days playing video games, bossing around his mother, and searching for automatic weapons on the internet. It’s the late ‘90s, two of these three...
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- 7/28/2023
- Screen Anarchy
UTA has boarded world sales on Mark H. Rapaport’s Fantasia premiere “Hippo.”
“We are very excited for this one,” said UTA’s Billy Offer, admitting a number of distributors have already expressed interest.
“It’s so oddly relatable and so singular in its approach, and vision, that we really wanted to help make sure it got the right platform to shine. Fantasia is a perfect launchpad for this type of film.”
Produced by Kinematics in association with Rough House Pictures, it counts Danny McBride and David Gordon Green among its executive producers.
“Hippo’s’ strange and dark humor is quintessential viewing and a wonderful reminder of why we all got into indie filmmaking in the first place,” Gordon Green told Variety, calling it “a brilliant feature debut.”
In the film, Hippo and his adopted sister Buttercup (Lilla Kizlinger) live in complete isolation with their unstable mother. But Buttercup keeps...
“We are very excited for this one,” said UTA’s Billy Offer, admitting a number of distributors have already expressed interest.
“It’s so oddly relatable and so singular in its approach, and vision, that we really wanted to help make sure it got the right platform to shine. Fantasia is a perfect launchpad for this type of film.”
Produced by Kinematics in association with Rough House Pictures, it counts Danny McBride and David Gordon Green among its executive producers.
“Hippo’s’ strange and dark humor is quintessential viewing and a wonderful reminder of why we all got into indie filmmaking in the first place,” Gordon Green told Variety, calling it “a brilliant feature debut.”
In the film, Hippo and his adopted sister Buttercup (Lilla Kizlinger) live in complete isolation with their unstable mother. But Buttercup keeps...
- 7/24/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
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