Trailer: “Catfish”

From Jay Fernandez at the excellent Risky Business blog:

This was my favorite film at this past year’s Sundance Film Festival. Wildly surprising, unexpectedly moving and totally riveting.

Relativity Media and Rogue Pictures picked up the doc from Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman after the fest, and they’ve finally put out a new trailer. It leans heavily on the film’s suspense in the last third, which is a little misleading. Not in the suspense itself, which the film has in buckets. But in the nature of it. What you’re in for with this film is not “Paranormal Activity” or “The Blair Witch Project,” but something much more unusual and startling.

Which is why you should see it.

Here’s the trailer:

Here’s an excerpt from Fernandez’s original review of the movie when it played at Sundance. Key excerpt:

The screening of “Catfish” at the Library Theatre Friday afternoon was packed, and those in attendance were treated to one of those glorious surprises that Sundance revels in sneaking to indie-film audiences. The film is incredibly moving even while being laugh-out-loud funny and chest-tighteningly suspenseful. And the crowd was transfixed enough to talk back to the screen during the film and stand clapping the moment it ended.

Here is the Catfish Facebook page which features this quote:

“Catfish was one of the most surprising movies I have seen in a long time. The movie shifted tones 3 times, it was hilarious, then it was truly terrifying, then it was really profound and moving. That is what you aspire to do in a movie.”

-Ed Norton

The movie’s IMDB page.

Still no release date listed. 

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