Tender world première closes Dances With Films, 28 Jun 2026 Tender begins with a shot of an incinerator blazing, and with Billie Royce (Jess Weixler) declaring in voice-over, “Failure is something I generally avoid”, while describing the refusal of herself and her husband Mick (Jesse Garcia) to recognise the “bad spot” that they are in…
Sonja O’Hara’s Mid-Century opens in the era of its title – 1963, to be precise – with a montage of well-dressed housewives cleaning in their homes. The setting is the suburbia of (fictional) Mandarin, California, whose houses, designed by local architect Frederick Banner (Stephen Lang) in the late Fifties, are the aspirational envy of the…