GEMINI American Independents

Aptly set in Los Angeles, this film is an impressionistic, dark and stylish murder mystery. The LA that GEMINI’s characters inhabit is an insecure city filled with insecure people; secrets have to be hidden — especially about sex — and everyone lies. Starlets like Heather (Zoë Kravitz) and her assistant Jill (Lola Kirke) are locked in a codependent dance of protection and deflection. With GEMINI, director Aaron Katz delves into dreamy neo-noir territory with nods to films from auteurs like Alfred Hitchcock, Krzysztof Kies’lowski, Brian De Palma and David Lynch that tackle the “double” in cinema — and the potential, in the process of taking on an alternate identity, of subsuming the darkness of another’s soul. – Jacqueline Lyanga