Drama film 'Paint It Black' to screen at Balcon Heliopolis

CAIRO – 2 November 2017: The drama film "Paint It Black" (2016) by director Amber Tamblyn will be screening at Balcon, Heliopolis on Monday, November 6.

Based on the 2006 novel by Janet Fitch, "Paint It Black" uses the backdrop of the 1980s Los Angeles’s punk scene to tell a harrowing, tragic tale of two women shattered by the aftermath of a suicide. Runaway Josie Tyrel (Alia Shawkat) manages to find hope in the form of Michael Faraday (Rhys Wakefield), a Harvard dropout who takes her on a wondrous journey through love.

All this is snatched from Josie when she receives a call from the coroner’s office to identify a body; Michael’s. Things only get worse when Josie encounters Michael’s grieving mother Meredith (Janet McTeer), who pits all the blame on her for her son’s internal anguish and makes it clear how much she loathes Josie. Yet at the same time, the two are united by their grief, growing closer in a twisted relationship that only hurts them further.

"Paint it Black" won the James Lyons Award for Best Editing of a Feature Narrative at the 2016 Woodstock Film Festival.