{"id":75217,"date":"2019-09-16T14:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=75217"},"modified":"2023-05-10T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T20:33:00","slug":"milwaukees-movie-uwm-alums-give-me-liberty-intimately-tied-to-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/milwaukees-movie-uwm-alums-give-me-liberty-intimately-tied-to-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee\u2019s movie: 51ÁÔÆæ alum\u2019s \u2018Give Me Liberty\u2019 intimately tied to city"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kirill Mikhanovsky and Alice Austen have written a critically acclaimed love letter to Milwaukee. And the city has shown them some love in return.<\/p>\n

The pair are co-writers of \u201cGive Me Liberty,\u201d an independent film that took both Sundance and Cannes by storm. The film follows 24 hours in the life of Vic, a medical transport driver who is supposed to be driving his client Tracy, a woman with ALS, to her job. Instead, he finds himself dodging roads blocked by street protests and playing chauffeur to his grandfather\u2019s friends, a troop of Russian \u00e9migr\u00e9s stranded on their way to a funeral.<\/p>\n

Mikhanovsky, who also directed the film, graduated from 51ÁÔÆæ in 1998 with a triple major in Russian, linguistics and film. Austen, a Chicago playwright, has 51ÁÔÆæ connections too: She worked as an adjunct professor in the theater department last year. The two began collaborating after Mikhanovsky attended a reading of one of Austen\u2019s plays and was impressed by her skill.<\/p>\n

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The cast of \u201cGive Me Liberty,\u201d some first-time actors, comes almost entirely from Milwaukee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Five years ago, they began writing the script for \u201cGive Me Liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would literally take turns with the draft. We would pull the computer back and forth,\u201d Austen said. \u201cWe started off with this idea of a film we could make where contemporary Milwaukee could be a character.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mikhanovsky hopes that it will put the city on the filmmaking map. Wisconsin gives no tax incentives to filmmakers, which makes it tough to shoot anything in the state, let alone a small feature film. If \u201cGive Me Liberty\u201d does well at the box office, it might begin to convince the movie industry that Milwaukee is a viable filming locale.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted this film to be a catalyst for the budding, developing film industry in this city. We want more films to be made here,\u201d Mikhanovsky said.<\/p>\n

So, Mikhanovsky and Austen need people to buy tickets, especially in Milwaukee. And they have: Numerous screenings have sold out at the Oriental Theatre, where the film has had an extended run since opening Aug. 21. Showtimes are scheduled at the Oriental and Times Cinema at least through Sept. 19, and the film screened at several Marcus theaters.<\/p>\n

100% made in Milwaukee<\/h3>\n

There is nothing Hollywood about \u201cGive Me Liberty.\u201d Despite several setbacks, the film was made entirely in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cast it, with four exceptions, entirely with people from Milwaukee. It was filmed in Milwaukee,\u201d Austen said. \u201cWe hired locally. Many of our crew went to 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s film school. It was great to be on the forefront of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The filmmakers also formed partnerships with local organizations, including the Wisconsin African American Women\u2019s Center, which allowed the crew to hold auditions in their building and use it as a base of operations during filming. They also paired with Milwaukee\u2019s Eisenhower Center, which provides vocational training, education and jobs for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Eisenhower) embraced the idea of making a film with some of the clients at the center. It was incredible,\u201d Mikhanovsky said.<\/p>\n

One of the clients sang Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u201cBorn in the USA\u201d during filming. Springsteen watched the film, was impressed with it and with the performance of the song by a young man with disability, and gave the filmmakers his blessing to use it in the film.<\/p>\n

But Milwaukee offers far more than its partnerships, valuable as they are. It\u2019s a Rust Belt city undergoing a reinvention, and the two screenwriters wanted to capture the zeitgeist.<\/p>\n

\u201cMilwaukee is an incredible city. It\u2019s the backbone of America, and it feels very authentic,\u201d Mikhanovsky said. \u201cIt\u2019s incredibly diverse; it\u2019s incredibly cinematic. It was a natural decision to want to make something written for the character of this city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Critical acclaim<\/h3>\n

The world seems to agree: The critics love it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cGive Me Liberty\u201d premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received a glowing review<\/a> from Manohla Dargis, a film critic for the New York Times\u00a0<\/i>who is \u201cone of the most revered and feared in equal measure,\u201d according to Mikhanovsky. Then the film showed at Cannes, which is almost unprecedented; the world\u2019s premier film festival, held in France, does not show films that have already been screened at other festivals. \u201cGive Me Liberty\u201d marks just the fourth exception in 20 years.<\/p>\n

Mikhanovsky reported that \u201cGive Me Liberty\u201d received a 10-minute standing ovation at Cannes, outstripping applause for \u201cRocketman\u201d and \u201cOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times called it<\/a> a \u201cbrilliant madcap farce on wheels, a heady and rambunctious state-of-the-union address (that) may be one of the bigger movies you\u2019ll see this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film has been acquired for distribution in more than 30 countries. It\u2019s showing on 128 screens in France and 100 in Russia. \u201cGive Me Liberty\u201d is playing in select cities in the United States, distributed by Music Box Films in Chicago. It premiered in Milwaukee at a sold-out Oriental Theatre.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first narrative feature film that is 100% Milwaukee-made that is getting national distribution,\u201d Mikhanovsky said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve done the heavy lifting,\u201d he added. \u201cWe don\u2019t receive incentives from Milwaukee. Instead, we want Milwaukee to own this film, be proud of it, and come out and support its distribution by buying tickets and watching it. The way we see it, it\u2019s a way of showing one loves Milwaukee. The world is looking at Milwaukee to see how commercially viable the film is. If it is, other theaters nationwide will want to program it too.\u201d<\/p>\n

A joy to watch<\/h3>\n

Milwaukeeans should be proud because it\u2019s a good movie: Poignant without being sappy, humorous without being over-the-top. As the film progresses and Vic\u2019s day spins further out of control, disparate groups begin to come together in the back of his medical transport van. It\u2019s a film about the American dream, and how everyone, from women with ALS to Russian immigrants, are still reaching for it.<\/p>\n

The performances are outstanding, the filmmakers promise. Mikhanovsky and Austen were especially struck by Lauren \u201cLolo\u201d Spencer, a first-time actress who, like her character Tracy, has ALS.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want Lolo to win an Oscar. The scenes with Lolo and Chris (Galust, who plays Vic) really stand out,\u201d said Austen. \u201cThere\u2019s a beautiful story of how their characters bond. Both of the actors are so cinematic and powerful together. It\u2019s really gratifying to see it come to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mikhanovsky and Austen poured a lot of their own experiences into the film as well, and it shows. Like Vic, Mikhanovsky is Russian and worked as a medical transport driver at one time, though the film is not biographical. Austen admits to including small scenes from her life as well: One moment between Tracy\u2019s grandmother and Vic\u2019s grandfather in the film grew out of a real-life wedding where Austen witnessed two elderly relatives sit down together.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was amazing \u2013 a moment between two people of the same generation who had seen the same big things and small things passing in their lives,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not saccharine; it\u2019s not politically correct \u2026 but it\u2019s ultimately very optimistic.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why everyone should see the film, Mikhanovsky added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to have fun and support your community, look no further.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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