Amanda Kramer’s “Please Baby Please” Lands at Music Box, Andrea Riseborough Stars

Films

Amanda Kramer’s “Please Baby Please” Lands at Music Box, Andrea Riseborough Stars

Music Box Films has secured U.S. rights to Amanda Kramer’s latest, “Please Baby Please,” a queer thriller led by Andrea Riseborough. Deadline broke the news.

Penned by Kramer and Noel David Taylor, “Please Baby Please” is set in the ’50s and follows a newlywed couple “who are living an outwardly traditional lifestyle at the bohemian forefront of the Lower East Side. Suze (Riseborough) and Arthur (Henry Melling) find their world turned upside down after witnessing a murder committed by a gang of greasers in leather jackets on the sidewalk in front of their house. This introduction to the intimidating Young Gents arouses previously unsuspected emotions in Suze and Arthur, leading them to question the confines of gender, monogamy, and the sexual status quo,” the source teases.

“Please Baby Please” premiered at Rotterdam Film Festival and made its U.S. debut at Frameline. It’s set to screen at Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival in July. A theatrical release is being planned in the fall.

“There are many things we love about this film, including Andrea Riseborough’s fierce and fearless performance,” said Music Box Films’ Brian Andreotti. “Director Amanda Kramer’s bold mise en scène and stylized 1950s iconography combine to give adventurous audiences a highly entertaining musing on gender roles and desire that is both timely and timeless.”

Kramer, whose other features include “Ladyworld” and “Paris Window,” said she felt “so fortunate to be working with a distributor that continues to support truly independent films from auteurs around the world.” She added, “Music Box Films reminds us that cinema is art, and I’m thrilled to share ‘Please Baby Please’ with an American audience through the careful curation of their team.”

Riseborough counts “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” “Mandy,” and “Luxor” among her previous credits.