The Astrid Experience

The Astrid Experience (2023)

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A artist in recovery meets a free spirited actress when he helps her out of a difficult situation at a casting studio. To thank him, she takes him on an all-night adventure through Los Angeles that shows him he has something more worth living for.

Date of release
2023-03-25
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director
Cal Barnes

Casting

Interesting facts

The Astrid Experience is a romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Cal Barnes, and starring Cal Barnes, Lucia Xypteras, Rob Conroy, Mena Santos, and John That. The story follows Chase Abbott, a famous young artist in recovery who meets an actress named Astrid.

Production and release

Barnes wrote and directed the film, and launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for the effort.

The Astrid Experience had its world premiere at the Laemmle Royal Theatre in Santa Monica, California, on March 23, 2023.

The film was released for streaming on Tubi, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime Video.

Sweta of FandomWire Magazine ranked The Astrid Experience at #5 on their "Top 10 Films Shot on an iPhone" behind Sean Baker's Tangerine and Steven Soderbergh's Unsane and High Flying Bird, saying that "the film has a wonderful immediacy to it, like we're right there with these characters as they discover something worth living for in each other's company."

William Hemingway of the UK Film Review gave the film two out of five stars, summing up that "The Astrid Experience is one of those typical Hollywood beasts, trying to tell cool LA stories which us normals can idolize and aspire to, just doing what it's doing without really seeing what it's actually up to." He did, however, give praise to the film's music, stating that "The music may be the only positive to The Astrid Experience as the easy beats…

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