Sunday (1997 film)

Sunday is a 1997 independent film. Set in Queens, a borough of New York City, it is a dark comedy about an unemployed, homeless IBM functionary mistaken by an aging actress for famous film director Matthew Delacorta. The film was directed by Jonathan Nossiter. The screenplay is an adaptation by Nossiter and James Lasdun or Lasduns own short story Ate, Memos or the Miracle published in his collection of stories, Three Evenings. The two would later collaborate again on Signs amp Wonders.

The film won the 1997 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury prize for Best Film and Best Screenplay. It also won the Deauville Film Festival Grand Prize for Best Film and its International Critics prize. It marked Nossiters debut at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section his 2004 Mondovino was in competition for the Palme dOr and was also included in The Museum of Modern Arts New DirectorsNew Films Festival.

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