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COVID-Set 'Eddington' Takes Us Back to a Nation at a Breaking Point
NEW MEXICO, JUL 17 – Eddington depicts rising local tensions over mask mandates and political rivalries amid the early COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting divided community responses in a fictional New Mexico town.
- Ari Aster's film Eddington opens July 18 at FilmScene in Iowa City, directed by Ari Aster as a time capsule of small-town America in 2020.
- Set in late May 2020 in Eddington, New Mexico, the film follows Sheriff Joe Cross clashing with Mayor Ted Garcia over mask mandates and personal history.
- Fed up with mask mandates, Joe Cross launches a mayoral bid against Ted Garcia, positioning a proposed massive data center as the pivotal wedge issue.
- At Cannes, critics argued the film’s refusal to pick a side amounted to gloating both-sidesism, though its dark satire remains shockingly funny.
- Ari Aster hopes audiences find solidarity watching Eddington with neighbors from opposite pandemic camps, and he said `it is a period piece, so we can look at the way we were and maybe have a chance at seeing how we are`.
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