Round 8: Tossup 1

A film by this director includes an extremely realistic simulated oral sex scene in which a woman entraps her daughter’s killer after noticing him on camera at her CCTV job. A shot of a balloon floating away ends a film by this director of Red Road. The diegetic (15[1])music in a scoreless film by this director includes Bobby Womack’s cover of “California Dreamin’,” which is the favorite song of a man who carries the protagonist on his back after a fishing trip, and Nas’s “Life’s a Bitch,” to which a family of three women dance at the film’s end. A man with a rat tail haircut is kicked out of a (*) Target for dancing to “We Found Love” by Rihanna in a film inspired by this director’s road trip across the US. Most of this director’s films focus on working-class women, such as her short film Wasp, a 2009 film starring Katie Jarvis and Michael Fassbender, and a 2016 road movie starring Sasha Lane and Shia Laboeuf. For 10 points, name this English director of Fish Tank and American Honey. ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Andrea Arnold [or Andrea Patricia Arnold]
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2025 Spec Script - Canada2025-06-21250%50%0%47.00
2025 Spec Script - Online 12025-06-2110100%50%20%106.30
2025 Spec Script - Online 22025-06-213100%33%0%122.67