IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS World Cinema: American Showcase

SEXLESS, the 2003 film by comedy director Alex Holdridge is the only movie to have won both the Jury and Audience Award for best feature film at the SXSW Film Festival. Holdridge’s new work is a comic and tender ride and tender journey though love, sex, and modern romance in Los Angeles.

Wilson (Scoot McNairy), a 29-year-old guy who is new to Los Angeles, has just completed the worst year of his life. On New Year’s Eve he has no date, no concrete plans and every intention of locking the doors and forgetting the last year ever happened. Then his best friend Jacob (Brian McGuire) browbeats him into posting a personal ad on Craigslist. When Vivian (Sara Simmonds), a strong-willed woman hellbent on being with the right guy at the stroke of midnight responds, a chaotic, sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching journey through the black-and-white streets of LA begins. In the waning hours of the year, emotional vulnerability and bitterly honest humor seem to lurk around every corner.