ARNOLD: Yeah. GROSS: Realizes that she's probably poor and unrooted. No trailer songs have been added yet. The trio bring her to their home and offer to buy several subscriptions if she eats the worm at the bottom of a bottle of mezcal. And I just left home. How did the image come to you of getting Shia LaBeouf on his knees, massaging - lotioning the legs of the crew leader? Is it really enough though? And, of course, everyone there is doing kind of like plies and an official kind of thing. 1.33:1 style and it creates a visually fascinating aesthetic. But I don't think anyone was - I think - my sense is that most people were not expecting to get them. And then she realizes that Jake is there, too. phenomenal work captures that propulsive teenage trait as well as anything in Then you've got to be that person, you know? American Honey is undeniably gorgeous. It's drenched in color; it drips with it like, yes, honey. In the center of it all is Sasha Lane as Star, just as bright (if not brighter), and impossible not to watch. December 8, 2017 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review In a parking lot, Star catches the eye of Jake (Shia LaBeouf), a bearded glamour-puss whos like a cocky, rat-tailed James Dean, and moments later, when she follows him into a Wal-Mart, and Jake and the other kids break into dance moves near the checkout counter to the synth-throb of Rihanna and Calvin Harris We Found Love (its blaring over the stores speaker system), and Jake jumps up on the counter, which is enough to get a cashier to call security, the scene looks like a pop-renegade epiphany to place alongside every moviefrom Jailhouse Rock to 8 Mile.. GROSS: I thought you danced on "Top Of The Pops," the pop music show. And they said, do you want to come with us? All rights reserved. [1] The film had its world premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on 15 May 2016, where it was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or. GROSS: You seem particularly interested in making movies about teenagers and - in the hopes that you might be able to answer this (laughter) - I'm going to ask you why the teenage years are especially interesting for you? The following morning, the crew get in the car and there is a new girl there, while Jake is missing. So I never really asked her that much about it before we started, and then we're all filming. And so, you know, I wouldn't want to talk about those things. It was always much, much briefer kind of interactions with people. I learned so much about cameras and about putting things together and all the kind of things that I use now in what I do. Its around this time that Jake reveals he has a stash of jewellery that hes stolen from various potential customers at the houses he visits, which he eventually plans to sell in order to purchase a house. exaggerated imagery of the heartland of the United Statesmen in cowboy hats GROSS: Who need a way out of the situation that they're in. I notice that in so many films! 7 snazzgasm 6 yr. ago And so it's this really strange power scene where the Krystal character, the crew manager, is showing her power over the Shia LaBeouf character.