A very special episode in which Charlene & Jackie fully commit to incorporating the themes of impermanence and incompetence in Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind into their own podcast practice. 

Autumn has fallen in New York and Charlene and Jackie celebrate by tumbling down the stairs of the Angelika straight into Oliver Hermanus’s Palme D’Or nominated The History of Sound which premiered at Cannes.

Charlene and Jackie go in and go off on Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor’s Cannes playing, Sundance Award winning debut. 

We discuss On Becoming a Guinea Fowl by Rungano Nyoni, a film that premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. 

For the podcast’s maiden voyage we discuss Universal Language, by Matthew Rankin, Ila Firouzabadi, and Pirouz Nemati, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2024