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Event report: Elektra Luxx
When you make a movie for, as director Sebastian Gutierrez puts it, “[muffle-mumble]-thousand dollars,” you expect some difficulties. But you probably don’t expect glitches once you’ve met your deadline and delivered a finished cut to the festival championing your work.
The Paramount’s digital projector went kaput 62 minutes into Gutierrez’s “Elektra Luxx” premiere Sunday night, leaving an audience that was clearly into the film wondering what would happen to the adult-film actress, played with gusto by Carla Gugino, for whom it was named.
Though SXSW head Janet Pierson reassured the filmmaker by recalling a similar tragedy at the first screening of “She’s Gotta Have It” — things worked out okay for Spike Lee — Gutierrez remained flustered as he addressed the crowd while hoping for a quick repair.
Fortunately, he’s funny when nervous: he dished trivia on the production, hinted what was to come in the film’s climax, and geeked out over the new tech that made “Luxx” so much better looking than his previous movie.
Cast members including Gugino and Emmanuelle Chriqui (“Entourage”) eventually joined the director, revealing what it was like to act in such an oversexed movie. The party ended when Pierson admitted they couldn’t fix the equipment in time and would have to schedule a make-up screening later in the week.
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