Anna Boden does not condone violence. She abhors it, quite frankly. Yet “Freaky Tales,” her new film with directing partner Ryan Fleck that premiered at Sundance, is one she freely admits is their most violent film yet.
“There is something about, over the past few years, the anger people have felt about so much hate-fueled violence in the world,” Boden said at theWrap’s Sundance Portrait and Interview Studio presented by NFP. “So, I think it was cathartic for us to explore in a very safe place, like a movie, a bit of a revenge fantasy against that hate-fueled violence.”
Fleck recounted how he and his parents generation grew up watching movies where “everyone could agree the Nazis were the bad guys,” and made “Freaky Tales” as a nod to those movies.
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