Mia Wasikowska is a Strange Teacher in Unsettling ‘Club Zero’ Trailer

“Don’t you get it? It’s a question of faith.” Film Movement has revealed an official trailer for Club Zero, an unsettling dark comedy thriller from provocative Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner. This premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival to mixed reviews (here’s ours defending it), because it is a very interesting film that dares to provoke a reaction from the audience by confronting them with freaky blind faith. Mia Wasikowska stars as Miss Novak, a young teacher who takes a job at an elite school and forms a strong bond with five students who join her group called “Club Zero”, challenging them to participate in “conscious eating”. Combining a pitch-black comedic sensibility with elements of body horror, Club Zero satirizes the contemporary inclinations toward myopic insularity and blind faith brought on by anxieties regarding food, consumerism and environmental catastrophe. Though I think it’s digging even deeper than that getting at religion, society, and beyond. Along with Wasikowska, it stars Sidse Babett Knudsen, Elsa Zylberstein, Mathieu Demy, Amir El-Masry, Ksenia Devriendt, Luke Barker, & Florence Baker. Check it out. // Continue Reading ›