Saturday, January 25, 2020

Sundance 2020: 'Zola' Is the First Twitter-Inspired Crime Drama


Going into this year's Sundance, Zola was one of the most highly-anticipated films. Adapted from a 2015 tweet storm about one woman's strange odyssey from Detroit to Tampa, which involved prostitution and suicide attempts, the movie very much speaks to our social-media age. But is it any good? I went into Zola's history and the actual film for MEL.