TRAILER THE PERFECT ASSISTANT MOVIE

In his B+ review out of this year’s Telluride Film Festival, where the film premiered, Eric Kohn wrote that the film has a “stunning performance at its center … there’s no doubting the hypnotic power of a movie that digs inside Weinstein’s harrowing reign and observes the mechanics that allowed it to last so long. Harvey Weinstein's Presence at New York Bar Ignites Fractious Protests and Dragouts 'The Assistant': Kitty Green's Unnerving Harvey Weinstein Thriller Stakes Out 2020 Release As Jane follows her daily routine, she, and we, grow increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her work day, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand, only to discover the true depth of the system into which she has entered.” Her day is much like any other assistant’s - making coffee, changing the paper in the copy machine, ordering lunch, arranging travel, taking phone messages, onboarding a new hire. Per the film’s official synopsis, it “follows one day in the life of Jane (Garner), a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. The first official trailer for “The Assistant” offers a glimpse of a role that is sure to launch her career even further she is timid but determined as she pieces together the unimaginable. “Ozark” breakout Julia Garner carries the film on her shoulders, in a role that is earning her much praise. Instead, in Kitty Green’s urgent real-time thriller, we see hints of his toxic behavior and furtive abuse through the eyes of a lowly assistant, who is always just outside the door or on the other side of the phone.

In the first onscreen depiction of the man whose actions launched the #MeToo movement, the Boss, a Harvey Weinstein-like character who looms large in “ The Assistant,” does not appear once.

Trailer the perfect assistant