This one sounds like a total departure into sci-fi, with Matt Damon playing a man who invests in an experimental technology that shrinks people down to tiny size as a means of coping with the globe’s overpopulation.
Alexander Payne has been on a roll, exploring the pain and peril of, well, humanity in deeply personal stories like The Descendants and Nebraska.
And yet, he’s had his foot in the comedy genre before, delivering the bitingly satirical Election, a true masterpiece.
Venice flipped for Payne’s dark comedy, but Telluride was driven in half between supporters and detractors, so we’ll see how the movie plays for Canadian audiences.