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In 2018, Iliza Shlesinger wrote down, “what if high school came back to bite you in the ass?”
Over many, many rewrites, as well as several false starts and stops, that germ of an idea culminated in “Chasing Summer,” a comedy about a 40-something woman who returns to the Texas hometown she fled decades ago only to find herself embracing a summer of parties, menial jobs and carefree romance. That may sound like the premise of an Apatow-ian exercise in arrested development, but Shlesinger wasn’t interested in just landing punchlines.
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“I knew what I wanted,” Shlesinger said during a Zoom interview a week before “Chasing Summer’s” Sundance premiere. “I wanted to make a film. I wanted to make art. I thought it’s time to make something beautiful, not just a straightforward comedy, because this very easily could have been that, and I wanted it elevated.”
To realize her vision, Shlesinger turned to Josephine Decker, an indie filmmaker best known for moody thrillers and dramas such as “Shirley” and “Butter on the Latch.” It was an unconventional match, but there was something about Decker’s style that Shlesinger thought would be perfect for “Chasing Summer.”
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