Join us on Wed 6 May from 12.00pm (BST), when we’ll be in conversation with director Kitty Green discussing THE ASSISTANT via our Facebook Live page here and tune in.
Ahead of the discussion why not read more about Kitty Green and other films to provide context to this #MeToo drama:
1. Watch THE ASSISTANT from 1 May – you can watch the film for a discounted price on Curzon Home Cinema – just enter QANDASBEV in the promo code box, watch the film here.
The film is also available on iTunes, Amazon, Sky Store, Virgin, Google Play, Rakuten, Microsoft Film & TV Store, Volta, BT TV, Curzon Home Cinema, BFI Player and MUBI: https://bit.ly/RTFWatchTheAssistant
2. Read an interview with Kitty Green from our friends Women and Hollywood here
3. Catch up on her past films – CASTING JONBENET is available on NETFLIX and UKRAINE IS NOT A BROTHEL is available on iTunes, YouTube and GooglePlay now.
ABOUT THE ASSISTANT
In 2017, a series of shattering exposés leveled allegations of sexual assault across the entertainment industry, unearthing a watershed moment and sending powerful predators running for cover. As the courage of outspoken accusers inspired women in all industries to step forward and say “me too,” documentary filmmaker Kitty Green (Casting JonBenet) knew she had found the subject for her first narrative film: not the misdeeds of one person, but the entrenched system that supports the many. Set in the competitive world of film and television production, The Assistant captures the universal experience of being at the bottom of the office hierarchy at any company. Garner (“Ozark,” “The Americans”) anchors the film with a quietly powerful tour-de-force performance that will have audiences wondering what they would do in her character’s place. Based on copious research, including scores of interviews conducted by Green with a wide array of workers from across several industries, The Assistant is a searing indictment of a system that perpetuates America’s endemic culture of workplace harassment and enables the predators within it
SYNOPSIS
An aspiring film producer, Jane (2019 Emmy nominee Julia Garner) has landed a job with a prestigious entertainment company. As one of several assistants to the head man, her duties, mostly mundane administrative tasks, begin early and end late, and include putting up with the mercurial executive’s verbally abusive outbursts. When Jane is asked to train a new hire, an attractive young woman with no experience whom the company is putting up in a luxury hotel, she can no longer ignore the fact that her boss is a sexual predator. But whom does she turn to when the perpetrator is also the top dog?
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