Claire Denis, Joe Alwyn, Benny Safdie & Danny Ramirez on Stars at Noon | NYFF60

Claire Denis, Joe Alwyn, Benny Safdie, and Danny Ramirez discuss Stars at Noon, an NYFF60 Main Slate Selection, with NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim. Stars at Noon opens on October 19 at Film at Lincoln Center. Get tickets: A dissolute young American journalist (Margaret Qualley) and an English businessman (Joe Alwyn) with ties to the oil industry meet by chance while on different, mysterious assignments in modern-day Nicaragua. The two tumble into a whirlwind romance despite knowing little about each other’s true professional identities—all while abstract forces close in on them as they desperately try to book it out of a country that won’t seem to let them leave. Stars at Noon, based on the 1986 novel by Denis Johnson, represents a new mode for director Claire Denis, a contemporary thriller suffused with political intrigue and languid eroticism, moving entirely to the tactile rhythms of its actors, especially rising star Qualley, who gives a live