PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE: The Frida Cinema

305 East 4th Street,Santa Ana CA 92701

15 November, 2021

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PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE, visionary director Paul Thomas Anderson's most unassuming film, showcases Adam Sandler's greatest performance. Mormons, plungers, and pudding mark director Paul Thomas Anderson’s neat and tidy Punch-Drunk Love, an unassuming love story from the crossroads between two eras of his oeuvre screening as part of our Magnificent Andersons series. Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) is a lonely and anxiety-ridden businessman prone to violent outbursts. His uneventful life of enduring mockery from his seven sisters is interrupted when a musical device appears outside his warehouse. Shortly afterwards, his sister sets up him up with the equally peculiar and mysterious Lena. Their guileless romance soon unfolds while a looming threat of extortion tests Barry’s spirit. Winner of the Best Director Award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, Punch-Drunk Love is a tenderly crafted film true to the sensations of falling in love. “It’s a romantic comedy on the verge of a nervous breakdown.” – David Ansen, Newsweek “A movie of undeniable power and strangeness.” – Glenn Kenny, Premiere Magazine “…a visual song of vulnerability, with a rhythm vaulting from discord to harmony and back again in vibrating organic-colored tones, as if the whole film were breathing on its own.” – Anita Schmaltz, Metro Times The Frida Cinema is a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching, connecting, and educating communities through the art of cinema.  Founded in 2014, it is Orange County's sole non-profit, independent cinema.OC's year-round film festival.