Helena Howard’s Typical Vibe
2 films — slow-burn, dark, intense, complex, uneasy

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Helena Howard has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.

In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions begin to arise about why the show sometimes seems more real than their own lives. In the pale glow of the television, their view of reality begins to crack.
Dir. Jane Schoenbrun · With Justice Smith, Jack Haven, Ian Foreman

Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
Dir. Josephine Decker · With Helena Howard, Molly Parker, Miranda July