The film Greener Grass starts with one suburban housewife giving another her baby out of politeness, and it only gets weirder from there. The brainchild of Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe, who met years ago in their New York Upright Citizen’s Brigade sketch group (they’ve both since relocated to Los Angeles), Greener Grass is a miracle of audacity. DeBoer and Luebbe wrote, directed, and star in this satire of white passive-aggression that takes place in a pastel neighborhood whose residents drive only golf carts, wear braces, and speak to each other on a narcotic delay. It is in no hurry to make sense, a self-assured vision of cinema and comedy that’s as arty as it is culty. In 2019, this is a rare thing indeed.
starts with one suburban housewife giving another her baby out of politeness, and it only gets weirder from there. The brainchild of Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe, who met years ago in their New York Upright Citizen’s Brigade sketch group ,is a miracle of audacity. DeBoer and Luebbe wrote, directed, and star in this satire of white passive-aggression that takes place in a pastel neighborhood whose residents drive only golf carts, wear braces, and speak to each other on a narcotic delay.
The power dynamic of their characters—Luebbe’s Lisa is alpha to DeBoer’s Jill’s beta—they say is not reflected in their own collaboration. “I like to think our relationship is slightly less dramatic,” says Luebbe. We discussed their movie and its ideas,, and their specific send-up of white women in the United States. An edited transcript of our discussion is below.We’re astounded too. We’re so lucky.
When writing this, did you have rules in your head in terms of what could and couldn’t happening this universe, or did you feel it out as you went?There are so many constraints. There are some rules, but so much of the writing was getting the tone just right, and that was a constant conversation with us. But I would say, we would kind of feel in our gut whether something is something that would happen in the world or not.
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