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 music in a scoreless film by this director includes Bobby Womack’s cover (15[1])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. (10[1])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 (10[1])Honey. ■END■

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