“This is a moment right before everything falls apart,” a serious Iris (Juno Temple) tells her forbidden lover, Gerald (Alessandro Nivola). “You just have to keep walking and trying not to fall down for as long as possible.”
As writer-director Liz W. Garcia told Women and Hollywood, “This is a film about grief. Sorry! There are some laughs, too, and it’s sexy, I promise. But essentially, this is a movie about the effect of grief on the friendship of two young women.”
The Tribeca award-nominated “One Percent More Humid” features Temple (Jill Soloway’s “Afternoon Delight”) and Julia Garner (“Grandma”) as two friends who return home for the summer. Instead of the lighthearted summer they originally planned, they become overwhelmed with respective forbidden love affairs. Eventually, the two are finally forced to confront the trauma and grief they’ve spent so much time trying to repress.
Garcia explains that “One Percent More Humid” was 15 years in the making. “This particular idea begged to be written because I wrote it when I was the age of these characters, and I set it the world I grew up in. It was about lust I felt, loneliness I felt, and the places in the natural world that moved me.”
“One Percent More Humid” also features Maggie Siff (“Sons of Anarchy,” “Mad Men”) and Mamoudou Athie (“Patti Cake$”). The film will be available on VOD October 10.
