The writer-director-star shot his feature debut in real New York clubs, cast a British kid he’d never met and bet his opening scene on a Rihanna song he didn’t have the rights to — now he’s in the Un Certain Regard lineup.
The 126-minute film, which premiered in the festival’s Un Certain Regard selection, casts Firstman as a washed-up party promoter who is forced to turn his life around when an unexpected visitor arrives.
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In the Andy Weir adaptations *The Martian* and *Project Hail Mary*, novelist Weir and screenwriter Drew Goddard invent sci-fi problems that feel reasonably grounded within the world of the movie.
