If you're looking for the wildest film of the fest this year, look no further! Ebony and Ivory is here on a nugget slide to melt your brain with absurd humour that becomes so delirious that it turns into a nightmare.
Paul and Stevie feed each other veggie nuggets and smoke Doobie Woobie… in a work of mad beauty that could have been a feature length I Think You Should Leave sketch.
Ebony and Ivory 2024
Once upon a time Stevie Wonder rowed across the ocean to visit Paul McCartney in his Scottish cottage to collaborate on a catchy pop ditty espousing the virtues of racial harmony. Ebony and Ivory may not be the true story of the creation of the eponymous 80s classic by two musical legends, but it has to be the more exciting version of events. Instead of creating a traditional biopic, Jim Hosking (The Greasy Strangler, NZIFF 2016), reimagines this historic collaboration as a brain melting comedy that will surely be one of the wildest film trips of this year, or any year. Sky Escobar plays Paul as an overly accommodating host with an obsession for readymade vegetarian snacks, while Gil Gex plays Stevie as a perpetually angry and unstable man that seems to hate everything that Paul does.
Combining the incredibly bad taste of classic John Waters films, with the delirious absurdity and horror of classic Tim & Eric skits, Ebony and Ivory takes comedy to a cliff and pushes it off. A place that will either be a heavenly and humorous fever dream or your worst nightmare. — Jordan Salomen