CAT PERSON
A Refocus Film Festival Selection
Margot (Emilia Jones), a college student working the concessions stand at an art house movie theater, becomes enamored with Robert (Nicholas Braun), a thirtysomething regular with whom she develops a text-based flirtationship. As the two grow closer, Margot finds herself trapped in the quagmire of possessing both a complex attachment and a gnawing suspicion that all is not what it seems. Adapted from the viral short story by Kristen Roupenian, Cat Person is a captivating dissection of power dynamics, gray areas, and the ways in which young women must reckon with the perilous vulnerability of desire.
Official Selection: 2023 Sundance Film Festival