The Pure and the Damned
2017 · 5m · USA
Directed by Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, dark, melancholic
A short film extending the world of Good Time, in which the characters of Connie and Nick appear alongside a CG stand-in for Iggy Pop as the title song — composed by Oneohtrix Point Never with vocals by Pop — plays over images that reprise and transform the feature's emotional register.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The Safdie Brothers repurposing their own feature's actors and moral universe as a short-form elegy is a self-reflexive gesture that belongs to a tradition of directors interrogating their own work. The Cannes soundtrack prize for Good Time lends it unambiguous festival pedigree.
Safdies, Pattinson, OPN, Iggy Pop voice — that's an unfair concentration of talent for what amounts to a Good Time epilogue music video. It works precisely because everyone involved is on form.
The Safdies extending Good Time's moral world via Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, and a CG Iggy Pop singing over OPN's title song. 4:42 that collapses music-video and narrative cinema into the same elegiac register.
Festivals
- Cannes Film Festival 2017, Soundtrack Award (Oneohtrix Point Never for Good Time)