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CAN'T LET IT GO

By Roy SZUPER

AMADEUS ENTERTAINMENT - as SALES All rights, World except North America, South America, Latin America, UK, Australia, New Zealand

Black comedy - Completed 2024

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Black comedy, Comedy
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 85 mn
- Director(s)
- Roy SZUPER
- Writer(s)
- Roy SZUPER
- Cast
- Mario CANTONE, Ella LOUDON, David FIERRO
- Synopsis
- (Can’t) Let It Go is a political comedy set in New York on the eve of the 2016 election. The film features five interconnected vignettes all revolving around the lead up to and aftermath of Trump’s surprise victory. The film is less about the election per se and more about the movement is spawned and ensuing political arguments we have been having with friends and family for the last eight years.
  At its core, (Can’t) Let It Go is about unique New York characters and their zany personal and political interactions: an African American gay man being paid as a Trump stand in, a Hillary Clinton campaign worker who moonlights as a dominatrix, a blue collar independent looking to start a kosher laundromat, a conservative Cuban émigré and his socialist daughter, a top Trump campaign worker and his apolitical model girlfriend, and a left wing, dog hating activist and actor who yearns to play John Wilkes Booth.
  Using images from both the film itself and from iconic political imagery, each vignette ends in a surreal, nightmare montage that conjures up each character’s personal and political demons. In our current atmosphere of political misinformation, these dream
  sequences further reinforce the character’s tenuous hold on reality.
  (Can’t) Let It Go is the first film to depict the post-election hangover that many New Yorkers had in a humorous way.