"Nia DaCosta is difficult to define. A Black woman director who has established herself as a big-budget filmmaker, in her still early career, she's creatively moved through genres and worked on different scales without firmly staying in a single sphere. Her debut feature, " Little Woods," for instance, was an intimate crime Western starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James that effortlessly instilled a spirit of sisterhood in a story about economic depression."
""Hedda" stars Tessa Thompson as the titular socialite, whose cunningness is tested on a single night when her old flame Eileen Lovborg (Nina Hoss), an academic who also happens to be applying for the same teaching position as Hedda's hapless husband George Tesman (Tom Bateman), arrives at her party brandishing her new book and devoted partner Thea Clifton (Imogen Poots)."
Nia DaCosta has built a career moving fluidly across genres and scales while establishing herself in big-budget filmmaking. Her debut, Little Woods, was an intimate crime Western that foregrounded sisterhood amid economic hardship. She followed that with the Jordan Peele-produced Candyman and the superhero film The Marvels, and will direct the 28 Years Later sequel, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Hedda is a catty, queer high-society dramedy adapted from Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Set in 1950s England, Hedda stars Tessa Thompson as a socialite whose cunning is tested during a single night when Eileen Lovborg and her partner arrive at a party.
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