52 Films by Women Vol 8. 19. My Old Ass (Director: Megan Park)
Pictured : Elliott (Missy Stella, left) meets her older self (Aubrey Plaza) in the comedy-drama, 'My Old Ass', written and directed by Megan Park. Photo : Shane Mahood. Courtesy of Sundance Institute / Amazon MGM If you could go back in time and give your younger self some advice, what would you tell them? Don’t talk to strangers, obviously. Writer-director Megan Park explores this question in her second feature, the humorous and gently moving ‘coming of sage’ movie, My Old Ass , in which eighteen-year-old soon to be University of Toronto undergraduate, Elliott (Maisy Stella) encounters her thirty-nine-year-old wiser and more saggy self (Aubrey Plaza) after taking some shrooms of dubious provenance - could be South American, could be African, could be poisonous as fudge. Elliott is spending summer with her cranberry-farming parents (Maria Dizzia, Al Goulem) and two brothers in whose business she takes zero interest. As her friends Ro (Kerrice Brooks) and Ruthie (Maddie Ziegle...