by Jason Adams
Euphoria writer-director Sam Levinson is about to maybe have a movie in the Oscar discussion this year with the news that his pandemic-shot relationship drama Malcolm & Marie, starring Zendaya and John David Washington, will be hitting Netflix on February 5th. M&M has Washington playing a film director while Zendaya's his girlfriend; the two have just gotten home from his latest film's premiere and as they wait to hear how the reviews are they decide to sort out their myriad relationship shit...
Legend goes that Levinson wrote the script in a quick six days, and then the team isolated and shot it all in a fancy house over two weeks at the end of July. I'll admit I kind of laughed when the trailer billed him as "Visionary Director Sam Levinson" which, I don't know, feels a little premature to me. But the black-and-white results here do indeed look stunning...
My short version of a "Yes No Maybe So" for this trailer is "Yes of course I will be watching this, since there are at this point in time very few new movies coming out, and I just see literally everything now." That aside this looks like a stylish showcase for its two young and beautiful stars, both of whom've been very good in the past, so I'd probably be a "Yes" even in a normal world. Thoughts?
