Malia Obama Really Nailed the Indie Darling Thing at the Sundance Film Festival
glamour.com, The Heart. The 25-year-old daughter of former president Barack Obama dressed the part of an indie filmmaker for the screening in a gray coat, pinstriped button-down, black jeans, cherry-colored leather Chelsea boots, and a skinny gray scarf for a look that feels very indie sleaze.
Thin impractical scarves do seem to be for spring. And I'm really digging the way her Doc Martens match her burgundy dye job.It's important to understand that Sundance is hosted in Park City, Utah at peak ski season.
In other words, it's cold. And it's a comparatively casual affair, intentionally striking a different chord from the old school glamour of The Heart, which was screened in the U.S.
short fiction films category, follows a lonely man grieving the loss of his mother as he tries to honor “an unusual request in her will,” as Malia Obama put it in a ahead of the festival.“The film is about lost objects and lonely people and forgiveness and regret,” she explained in the clip, “but I also think it works hard to uncover where tenderness and closeness can exist in those things.”Obama is both the writer and director of the short, which was created for Donald Glover's production company, Gilga.
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