Despite the Gods

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A bracing depiction of filmmaking and single motherhood, DESPITE THE GODS charts Jennifer Lynch’s ill-fated attempts to persevere in the movie business with both brutal candor and humor. Resembling celebrated behind-the-scenes movie-catastrophe chronicles as LOST IN LA MANCHA and LOST SOUL, DESPITE THE GODS goes one step further to show Lynch’s conflict as a struggling single mother, trying to do right by her daughter at the same time as she’s sweating out rainstorms and artistic differences on the set of her over-budget Bollywood dud. Funny, passionate and remarkably frank, Lynch is a terrific tour-guide through her own personal disaster—one filled with the joy of artistic creation, the agony of failure, and the ironic sting of survival.

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Release Date:	Apr 28, 2012
Running Time:	85 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English

synopsis

At 19 years old, Jennifer Lynch, daughter of cult film auteur David Lynch, directed her first feature film, BOXING HELENA. Savaged by critics, the film all but ended Lynch’s filmmaking efforts. Fifteen years after her dubious debut, the recovering addict and hard-working single mother returns to the director's chair with an ambitious new project set in India. Accompanied by her 12-year-old daughter, Lynch goes off to make HISSS, a feminist sensual fantasy based on an Indian legend about a shape-shifting serpent. What could have been an innovative taboo-busting comeback for Lynch turns into an 8-month misadventure (reminiscent of her father’s ill-fated DUNE). Plagued by bad weather, crew strikes, and even police intervention, Lynch must also contend with raising her daughter amid the bedlam.