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An inside look at empaths in A24’s new film ‘Look Into My Eyes’
ABC News’ Juju Chang speaks with empath Phoebe Hoffman and director Lana Wilson about their film, “Look Into My Eyes,” which follows a group of self-proclaimed psychics and their clients.
Click on this link to watch the segment https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/inside-empaths-a24s-new-film-eyes-113444752
I met a social media star! Layla and her dad Christian.
“Miss Americana” director Lana Wilson’s ‘Look Into My Eyes’ makes the world of psychics accessable and is acclaimed as one of the must-see movies out of the Sundance Film Festival 2024.
I am honored that a perceptive documentarian, Lana Wilson, has selected me to be featured in her latest, as she turns her reflective lens on an unexpected cluster: 7 psychics across New York City. Wilson puts forth something that will make every New Yorker—or anyone who’s ever sat with unprocessed grief and suffering—feel a little less alone, a little more seen.
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Key quote: “We have one pet psychic in the film, and I mean, there’s a lot of humor in the film in general. I hope people will laugh watching it. There’s a lot of wackiness and weirdness, and some of my favorite scenes are with the pet psychic. There’s someone who’s asking her about his lizard, who a zookeeper has absconded with to New Jersey, and he has not heard from the lizard who’s named Bobby Jr. And he wants to know, is my lizard happy and should I go to New Jersey and try to rescue the lizard? To my surprise, the psychic said no to both of those questions. It was not what the client wanted to hear. I found it very interesting. It was kind of an acknowledgement of what happens when you say goodbye to people, to relationships. You have to move on and let this go.” (Lana Wilson)
LOOK INTO MY EYES
https://filmforum.org/film/look-into-my-eyes
Opens Friday, September 6
DIRECTED BY LANA WILSON
Crystal balls, neon signs leading into candle-lit rooms, ladies in caftans: these images of psychics fill the popular imagination. But throughout New York City, in minimalist and homey settings, a community of sensitive, tuned-in individuals, with their own stories of loss and love, offer bridges to the beyond for sincere seekers. Acclaimed documentarian Lana Wilson (AFTER TILLER, MISS AMERICANA) turns her eye for intimacy and revelation on sessions between psychics and clients: a doctor wants assurance about the young girl who died in her care. An adopted young woman inquires about her birth parents. A pet medium (who also happens to be a cinephile) channels an anxious dog’s concerns. Equally absorbing are the questions the psychics ask themselves: Am I really helping people? Do I have a true gift? Does it matter?
2024 104 MIN. USA A24
REVIEWS
“An exquisitely made documentary that puts compassion before cynicism.”
– Nicolas Rapold, Sight and Sound
“With a cozy but respectful camera, a considerate tone that never compromises the film’s idiosyncratic subject, and a profound understanding of urban alienation, Wilson puts forth something that will make every New Yorker—or anyone who’s ever sat with unprocessed grief and suffering—feel a little less alone, a little more seen.”
– Tomris Laffly, Harper’s Bazaar
“Tender and entrancing…skeptical, mesmeric, and ultimately rather moving.”
– David Ehrlich, IndieWire
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https://deadline.com/video/look-into-my-eyes-lana-wilson-interview-sundance/
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It’s the pet psychic – an incredible, unfiltered New York original – who answers what many readers may be wondering: when she first had inklings of a sixth sense, she felt, “even if this is fake, I like it and I need it.” But, again, belief is almost beside the point as Wilson skilfully gives emotional space to the consultations, wherever they go, sometimes shockingly revelatory, other times teetering into dead-ends. The psychics themselves are a diverse selection whose lives feel afflicted with, as much as blessed, by whisker-sensitivity to stress and tragedy (familial abuse, discrimination, romantic despair).
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Click on the link to see me on WNBC TV New York Live on National Puppy Day, March 23, 2022
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