{"id":9060,"date":"2010-09-09T22:47:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T21:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9060"},"modified":"2010-09-09T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T22:13:07","slug":"interview-jay-duplass-on-cyrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/09\/09\/interview-jay-duplass-on-cyrus\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Jay Duplass on Cyrus"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Cyrus<\/a><\/strong> is the latest film from Jay<\/a> and Mark Duplass<\/a>, <\/strong>a\u00a0is a comedy-drama about a lonely divorcee (John C. Reilly<\/a>) who finally meets the woman of his dreams (Marisa Tomei<\/a>), only to discover that she has an over-protective son (Jonah Hill<\/a>).<\/p>\n After breaking through on the US festival scene with low-budget films such as The Puffy Chair<\/a> (2005) and Baghead<\/a> (2008), the Duplass Brothers quickly became associated with the term ‘mumblecore<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n It was a loose phrase used to describe a certain kind of US indie movie, often focusing on introspective twenty-somethings and shot on tiny budgets using documentary-style techniques.<\/p>\n Directors such as Andrew Bujalski<\/a>,\u00a0Lynn Shelton<\/a>, Aaron Katz<\/a> and Joe Swanberg<\/a> all had the label applied to their films, which stood out from the increasingly expensive indie scene of the early and mid-2000s.<\/p>\n Since then, the genre has arguably been absorbed into the mainstream with Greenberg<\/a> – the Ben Stiller comedy featuring mumblecore regular Greta Gerwig<\/a> – and now Cyrus, which sees the Duplass Brothers take their style of filmmaking to the division of a major studio (Fox Searchlight).<\/p>\n