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Artists are known for being impulsive and eccentric—for doing bizarre things just for fun. But in the quirky thriller Electra, a journalist and his girlfriend find themselves spending a wild weekend with a pair of artists, only to have their adventures take a dark turn.
Electra travels to Rome with journalist Dylan (Daryl Wein) and his photographer girlfriend, Lucy (Abigail Cowen), to do a profile piece on rock star Milo (Jack Farthing), to celebrate the release of his third album. From the beginning, the journalist and the rock star hit it off—and when Milo invites the couple to spend the weekend at a country house with his girlfriend, performance artist Francesca (Maria Bakalova), they’re thrilled to be invited. But it soon becomes clear that Dylan and Lucy aren’t who they say they are—and there’s much more to their story.
As Dylan and Lucy arrive at the massive country house, they have more on their minds than just a great magazine feature with cool pictures. For some reason, Dylan is planning to steal a specific painting from the house—and the more time it takes for him to find the right opportunity, the more tense he becomes. It’s clear that he has a personal attachment to the painting—and, little by little, his story comes out.
Still, the situation here is strange and unlikely. Celebrities tend to have a team around them at all times—especially when they’re working with the press. But Milo has no handlers, no hair and makeup team, no one standing by to make sure that the article is written with the right spin—or even to make sure that the journalist is actually a journalist. It’s all too easy. And while audiences wait for this mysterious tension to turn into something thrilling, instead it just turns...bizarre. There are strange photo shoots and play-acted dinners. The women dress up in costumes and run through town. The men go out for pastries and talk about their relationships. And when it does finally come together, it all seems like a whole lot of buildup for not a lot of action.
Thanks to its hint of a mystery, Electra does offer some underlying tension and suspense—but it gets lost in the strangeness of this unlikely weekend adventure. It feels like the filmmakers had a short story to tell, and they decided to stretch it out with a whole lot of unrelated quirkiness.
You can join these characters on their wild weekend when Electra premieres in select theaters and on demand on May 2, 2025.
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