30 Beats
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| Directed by | Alexis Lloyd |
| Produced by | Molly Connors Alexis Lloyd |
| Screenplay by | Alexis Lloyd |
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Condola Rashad Justin Kirk Jennifer Tilly Ingeborga Dapkunaite Jason Day Paz de la Huerta Lee Pace Vahina Giocante |
| Music by | C.C. Adcock |
| Cinematography | Lisa Rinzler |
| Edited by | Xavier Loutreuil |
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| Distributed by | Roadside Attractions |
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88 minutes |
| Country | United States and France |
| Language | English and French (some dialogue) |
| Budget | $1,000,000 |
30 Beats is a 2012 comedy romance film, written and directed by Alexis Lloyd and starring Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Jason Day and Vahina Giocante. Acquired by Roadside Attractions in Feb 2012, the film also stars Paz de la Huerta and Lee Pace. Roadside Attractions released the film theatrically and on Video on demand on June 1, 2012.
The plot is set in New York City over three days in the lives of 10 different characters who interact with each other in various sexual encounters which follows from one character to the next.
It begins when a young woman, named Julie (Condola Rashad), meets at a loft with her former anthropology professor, named Adam (Justin Kirk), where she tells him that she is a virgin and wants him to take her virginity.
Afterwords, the plot shifts to Adam who visits a tarot reader, named Erika (Jennifer Tilly), for advice on his sexual prowess and superstitions. She performs a ritual on him to "cleanse" Adam of his sexual needs.
Erika then meets with Diego (Jason Day), a much younger bicycle messenger whom she meets for weekly sexual trysts in a Harlem apartment, where Diego confides in her that he is in love with another woman and Erika gives him advice on how to court her.
Diego then goes to the house of Laura (Paz de la Huerta), the woman he has a fixation on, where she invites him in, but tells him that she cannot have sex, for she has a bad heart and had surgery where she carries a large scar on her chest. Diego tells her to accept her physical deformity as it is to feel accepted.
Laura then goes to her chiropractor, named Matt (Lee Pace) where she dresses up in revealing underwear and tries to seduce him, who at first refuses her advances, but eventually gives into them.
The next day, Matt visits Kim (Vahina Giocante), a young Frenchwoman he is dating, who reveals to him all about her own sexual active life with other men and women and of her comfort with it.
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