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PET SHOP DAYS
PET SHOP DAYS

• Director: Olmo Schnabel
• USA, ITALY, MEXICO, UK / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 110’ / English; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Olmo Schnabel, Galen Core, Jack Irv
• Director of Photography: Hunter Zimny
• Editing: Sophie Corra
• Music: Eli Keszler
• Cast: Jack Irv, Dario Yazbek, Willem Dafoe, Emmanuelle Seigner, Camille Rowe
• Producer: Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Galen Core, Olmo Schnabel
• Production Co.: MeMo Films, Twin Productions
• World Sales: MeMo Films

2023 Lisbon Revelation Award

The adrenaline-filled, sure-to-shock debut film of Olmo Schnabel (son of Julian Schnabel) follows two young bohemian young adults’ coming of age in New York through mischief, trouble, and lethal family issues. In an act of desperation, impulsive black sheep Alejandro flees his home in Mexico to New York City. There he meets Jack, an aimless 20-year-old pet store employee. Both spoiled by their wealthy parents and in search of a moral foothold, the two enter a whirlwind romance sending them down the rabbit hole of drugs and depravity in Manhattan’s underworld. With cameos from Peter Sarsgaard and Maribel Verdu, and executive producers including Michel Franco and Martin Scorsese, Pet Shop Days is shot on grainy 16mm film evoking 1990s independent cinema as well as Andy Warhol and Larry Clark. Pet Shop Days premiered at the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Extra section.

*Scenes of violence/sex might disturb some viewers.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.