Can we leverage controversy for good or are there always casualties? Writer/Director Molly Lipson explores two hot-button issues: climate change and Holocaust denial in this caustic media tale.
Jessie Bedrossian plays Millie, an activist gradually being forced into a TV interview that requires her to defend positions she does not agree with in pursuit of her larger goals. Couple this with the realisation that her ‘boyfriend’ and work colleague Sam (a deliciously snide Joshua Akehurst) doesn’t want to recognise their relationship and is also anti-semitic. Milly is having one hell of a bad day.
Lipson uses superb narrative skill to wade through the minefield of religious posturing and cancel culture. Making No Strings a fine examination of a corrosive modern media. When Sam tells Millie “Let’s circle back to this”, many viewers will feel a familiar chill run down their spine. Yet No Strings manages to feel triumphant by the film’s end.
