The Power of the Dog This time last year, hopping out of a ferry and onto a sun-scorched Lido, I remember the air above me crackled with a strange kind of static. Barely six months had passed since the world shut down in early 2020 and the Venice Film Festival announced its 77th edition would take place as a physical, analogue, offline event. It was, against all odds, a success. Minor blips notwithstanding, Venice showed that things could go back to normal. Slowly, the festival shed the ominous atmosphere of its early days to embrace the sort of optimism that tricked you into thinking the worst was officially over—even as the several temperature checkpoints and countless face masks around you suggested otherwise. A year later, what’s changed?Very little, if anything at all. The pandemic’s still raging, and the festival kicked off its 78th edition rolling out the...
- 9/2/2021
- MUBI
Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers had Venice Film Festival attendees on their feet in the Sala Grande this evening, giving the opening night world premiere a nine-minute standing ovation. The movie, which traces the complicated relationship of two women (Penélope Cruz and newcomer Milena Smit) who meet in a hospital room where they are going to give birth, was screened for the press this morning and has received resoundingly positive reviews.
There are political undercurrents to Parallel Mothers which add drama to the melodrama while the comedic turns of some of Almodóvar’s work are eschewed — there are the trademark candy-colored flourishes, however. In Deadline’s review of the film, Stephanie Bunbury called Parallel Mothers “profoundly and sincerely about deep love and loss” and “a triumphant choice” for the opening night of the world’s oldest film festival.
Almodóvar was last on the Lido with his adaptation of Jean Cocteau...
There are political undercurrents to Parallel Mothers which add drama to the melodrama while the comedic turns of some of Almodóvar’s work are eschewed — there are the trademark candy-colored flourishes, however. In Deadline’s review of the film, Stephanie Bunbury called Parallel Mothers “profoundly and sincerely about deep love and loss” and “a triumphant choice” for the opening night of the world’s oldest film festival.
Almodóvar was last on the Lido with his adaptation of Jean Cocteau...
- 9/1/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Two years after delivering what many thought — or perhaps feared — to be a valedictory grace note with 2019’s “Pain and Glory” (and one year after the English-language short “The Human Voice” showed that certain authorial voices lose nothing in translation), Pedro Almodóvar has returned with a feature to prove the doomsayers wrong.
A rougher and altogether less cohesive bit of filmmaking than his previous two outings, “Parallel Mothers” instead offers something all the more exciting: The work of an artist who’s reached the top of his craft and asked, “What’s next?”
In this case, the answer comes with a more expressly political conscience, an activist charge the Spanish filmmaker had never before expressed in his work. But as he reflects on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War and the contemporary political debates about exhuming the unrecorded mass graves that still dot the Spanish countryside, Almodóvar hasn’t exactly changed his tune.
A rougher and altogether less cohesive bit of filmmaking than his previous two outings, “Parallel Mothers” instead offers something all the more exciting: The work of an artist who’s reached the top of his craft and asked, “What’s next?”
In this case, the answer comes with a more expressly political conscience, an activist charge the Spanish filmmaker had never before expressed in his work. But as he reflects on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War and the contemporary political debates about exhuming the unrecorded mass graves that still dot the Spanish countryside, Almodóvar hasn’t exactly changed his tune.
- 9/1/2021
- by Ben Croll
- The Wrap
T. S. Eliot gave it a cryptic name in The Waste Land: “The Burial of the Dead.” Pedro Almodóvar has instructed his glamorous cast in Parallel Mothers to carry out just this, again and again with soil-mucked hands, in hypnotic and sometimes circuitous rhythm. Often a savvy master of charged symbols and double entendres, he would know that “dead” can be a metaphor and burials are seldom final. The intertwining thematic strands of motherhood and exhumed Spanish history battle for supremacy, maybe in an unnecessary fight to the death.
To bring to bear another familiar analogy often used in film criticism, Parallel Mothers is a film of promising ingredients sadly undercooked. It has that slightly stilted, over-heightened quality that characterizes Almodóvar’s weaker pictures, and, with a sting of disappointment, one can sense it from the opening ten minutes. There are tonal issues, awkwardly on-the-nose dialogue and plotting; the acting...
To bring to bear another familiar analogy often used in film criticism, Parallel Mothers is a film of promising ingredients sadly undercooked. It has that slightly stilted, over-heightened quality that characterizes Almodóvar’s weaker pictures, and, with a sting of disappointment, one can sense it from the opening ten minutes. There are tonal issues, awkwardly on-the-nose dialogue and plotting; the acting...
- 9/1/2021
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
Venice Film Festival jury president Bong Joon-Ho told the press corps at the opening press conference this morning that he’s looking forward to bringing his panelists together and hoping to “have an explosion with them” as they judge the 19 movies in competition. He added that the jury is “ready to fight, maybe, on the very last day.”
Musing on the past 18 months of the pandemic, the Parasite Oscar winner said, “In a way, looking back on it, it feels like this was a test and it shows the life force of cinema… As a filmmaker I don’t believe that the history of cinema and cinema could be stopped so easily. So, Covid will pass and cinema will continue.”
Bong’s jury includes Oscar winner and last year’s Golden Lion laureate Chloe Zhao who was unable to attend the 2020 festival to collect her prize for Nomadland. Said Zhao,...
Musing on the past 18 months of the pandemic, the Parasite Oscar winner said, “In a way, looking back on it, it feels like this was a test and it shows the life force of cinema… As a filmmaker I don’t believe that the history of cinema and cinema could be stopped so easily. So, Covid will pass and cinema will continue.”
Bong’s jury includes Oscar winner and last year’s Golden Lion laureate Chloe Zhao who was unable to attend the 2020 festival to collect her prize for Nomadland. Said Zhao,...
- 9/1/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s not at the scandalous level of its poster—so long as Instagram doesn’t have anything to say about it—but a Pedro Almodóvar preview gets eyes, lactation or no. After Pain & Glory and The Human Voice, his next feature, Madres Paralelas (aka Parallel Mothers), will open the Venice Film Festival, close NYFF, and hit the U.S. on December 24. After a Spanish trailer, Sony Pictures Classics have started hawking his latest stateside—here emphasizing plot, scenario, incident over pure mood.
Reuniting the director with his longtime collaborators Penélope Cruz, Julieta Serrano, and Rossy de Palma, the film also stars Israel Elejalde, Milena Smit, and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón. The story, which the director reveals will be an “intense drama,” follows women who give birth on the same day and have parallel trajectories in life. Written specifically with Cruz in mind, the story is set in Madrid and will...
Reuniting the director with his longtime collaborators Penélope Cruz, Julieta Serrano, and Rossy de Palma, the film also stars Israel Elejalde, Milena Smit, and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón. The story, which the director reveals will be an “intense drama,” follows women who give birth on the same day and have parallel trajectories in life. Written specifically with Cruz in mind, the story is set in Madrid and will...
- 8/23/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
I spent last week in New York having face-to-face business meetings with entertainment executives after not being able to make direct contact over the past 15 months. Last time I was in Manhattan was February 2020, right before Covid-19 began wreaking havoc on my favorite city away from home, and of course on the entire country.
There were residual signs of pandemic fallout: A number of restaurants long favored by industry folks had shuttered for good. But New Yorkers were nonetheless out in force, and it was heartening to hear those whom I and New York bureau chief Brent Lang met with talk about just how resilient their companies were during the height of the health crisis.
“At the start of the pandemic, we knew we needed to do everything possible to accelerate, rather than halt, production,” FilmNation founder Glen Basner told us.
“We collaborated with an amazing group of filmmakers to...
There were residual signs of pandemic fallout: A number of restaurants long favored by industry folks had shuttered for good. But New Yorkers were nonetheless out in force, and it was heartening to hear those whom I and New York bureau chief Brent Lang met with talk about just how resilient their companies were during the height of the health crisis.
“At the start of the pandemic, we knew we needed to do everything possible to accelerate, rather than halt, production,” FilmNation founder Glen Basner told us.
“We collaborated with an amazing group of filmmakers to...
- 7/28/2021
- by Claudia Eller
- Variety Film + TV
It’s quite welcome that we’re getting successive Pedro Almodóvar the past few years. After Pain & Glory and The Human Voice, his next feature, Madres Paralelas (aka Parallel Mothers), is set to open the Venice Film Festival ahead of a release in Spain in September and a U.S. release on December 24 from Sony Pictures Classics. Ahead of the premiere, the first teaser trailer has now arrived.
Reuniting the director with his longtime collaborators Penélope Cruz, Julieta Serrano, and Rossy de Palma, the film also stars Israel Elejalde, Milena Smit, and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón. The story, which the director reveals will be an “intense drama,” follows women who give birth on the same day and have parallel trajectories in life. Written specifically with Cruz in mind, the story is set in Madrid and will explore “the feminine world of new mothers, of mothers who are raising children in the first and second year,...
Reuniting the director with his longtime collaborators Penélope Cruz, Julieta Serrano, and Rossy de Palma, the film also stars Israel Elejalde, Milena Smit, and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón. The story, which the director reveals will be an “intense drama,” follows women who give birth on the same day and have parallel trajectories in life. Written specifically with Cruz in mind, the story is set in Madrid and will explore “the feminine world of new mothers, of mothers who are raising children in the first and second year,...
- 7/26/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The 2021 Cannes Film Festival brought the international film circuit back to life in roaring fashion earlier this month (French filmmaker Julia Ducournau became the second woman director to win the Palme d’Or thanks to Neon release “Titane”), and next up are the trio of major fall film festivals in September: the Venice Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, and Toronto International Film Festival. Venice is first out of the gate by launching its 78th edition Wednesday, September 1. The lineup for Venice 2021 has now been revealed.
As previously announced, Pedro Almodóvar will kick off the 2021 Venice Film Festival with the world premiere of his new drama “Parallel Mothers.” The film will debut in competition and vie for the festival’s top prize, the Golden Lion. “Parallel Mothers” is written and directed by Almodóvar, and stars both regular and new collaborators, including Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Julieta Serrano,...
As previously announced, Pedro Almodóvar will kick off the 2021 Venice Film Festival with the world premiere of his new drama “Parallel Mothers.” The film will debut in competition and vie for the festival’s top prize, the Golden Lion. “Parallel Mothers” is written and directed by Almodóvar, and stars both regular and new collaborators, including Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Julieta Serrano,...
- 7/26/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The Spanish auteur’s joyous half-hour film The Human Voice, now on Mubi, makes you wish that more top directors would occasionally keep it brief
Just as the Cannes film festival wrapped up last week, the Venice film festival – only six weeks away – stepped in to steal the spotlight, announcing to much excitement that it will open with Parallel Mothers, the new, Penelope Cruz-starring feature by Pedro Almodóvar. Almodóvar fans can consider themselves quite spoilt these days: only last year, Spain’s leading film-maker unveiled a different film at Venice, which last week landed on Mubi for your streaming pleasure.
The Human Voice is different from previous Almodóvar works, however. It’s his first film in English, for starters, and pairs him with Tilda Swinton, an actor currently leading the bingo game among her peers for who can rack up the most (and most esoteric) major auteur collaborations in the course of her career.
Just as the Cannes film festival wrapped up last week, the Venice film festival – only six weeks away – stepped in to steal the spotlight, announcing to much excitement that it will open with Parallel Mothers, the new, Penelope Cruz-starring feature by Pedro Almodóvar. Almodóvar fans can consider themselves quite spoilt these days: only last year, Spain’s leading film-maker unveiled a different film at Venice, which last week landed on Mubi for your streaming pleasure.
The Human Voice is different from previous Almodóvar works, however. It’s his first film in English, for starters, and pairs him with Tilda Swinton, an actor currently leading the bingo game among her peers for who can rack up the most (and most esoteric) major auteur collaborations in the course of her career.
- 7/24/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
by Nathaniel R
Reporting Pedro Almodóvar news twice over. First, his 22nd feature Parallel Mothers will open the 77th Venice Film Festival on September 1st, followed by a September rollout in Europe. Sony Pictures Classics will distribute the film in the US though they haven't announced a specific date yet. Almodóvar has been an arthouse sensation in the international marketplace since the late 80s. Though he feels like an Oscar perennial the truth is that though he's often in 'the conversation', as it were, Oscar has been a bit stingy; Collectively his films have earned 7 Oscar nominations and 2 wins (Best Foreign-Language Film for All About My Mother and Best Screenplay for Talk To Her) but are often snubbed despite outclassing their competitors. Remember Volver not placing in Foreign-Language Film and The Human Voice not landing in the short film category just last season when in both cases they both ought...
Reporting Pedro Almodóvar news twice over. First, his 22nd feature Parallel Mothers will open the 77th Venice Film Festival on September 1st, followed by a September rollout in Europe. Sony Pictures Classics will distribute the film in the US though they haven't announced a specific date yet. Almodóvar has been an arthouse sensation in the international marketplace since the late 80s. Though he feels like an Oscar perennial the truth is that though he's often in 'the conversation', as it were, Oscar has been a bit stingy; Collectively his films have earned 7 Oscar nominations and 2 wins (Best Foreign-Language Film for All About My Mother and Best Screenplay for Talk To Her) but are often snubbed despite outclassing their competitors. Remember Volver not placing in Foreign-Language Film and The Human Voice not landing in the short film category just last season when in both cases they both ought...
- 7/19/2021
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
With the Cannes Film Festival behind us and Venice ahead, cinema is back in full form. That means a new Pedro Almodóvar film is right around the corner, with the Spanish Oscar winner’s latest, “Parallel Mothers,” set to open the Biennale on September 1. The film is written and directed by Almodóvar, and stars both regular and new collaborators, including Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, plus Julieta Serrano and Rossy De Palma.
“I was born as a film director in 1983 in Venice,” said Almodóvar in a statement, “in the Mezzogiorno Mezzanotte section. Thirty-eight years later I am called to open the festival. I cannot explain the joy and the honor, and how much this means to me without falling into complacency. I am very grateful to the festival for this recognition and hope to be up to it.”
Here’s the synopsis for the film courtesy of Venice: “Two women,...
“I was born as a film director in 1983 in Venice,” said Almodóvar in a statement, “in the Mezzogiorno Mezzanotte section. Thirty-eight years later I am called to open the festival. I cannot explain the joy and the honor, and how much this means to me without falling into complacency. I am very grateful to the festival for this recognition and hope to be up to it.”
Here’s the synopsis for the film courtesy of Venice: “Two women,...
- 7/19/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Tilda Swinton is sitting cross-legged on a couch in her Highlands home, wearing heavy black specs and an army green Nine Inch Nails T-shirt, surrounded by her trio of spaniels.
The Oscar-winning actor recently returned to her native Scotland after working “almost nonstop” for the past 18 months, at the same time the entertainment business was largely shut down by the coronavirus pandemic.
An Instagram post of Swinton brandishing an appropriately funky face shield with Pedro Almodóvar on the sanguine Madrid set of “The Human Voice” became a viral sensation last summer. In the fall, after accepting the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival, she, alongside her dog Louie, starred in a Wales-set film called “The Eternal Daughter” directed by her oldest friend, “The Souvenir” helmer Joanna Hogg. This year, she celebrated Mardi Gras in Sydney with “Luther” star Idris Elba on her first trip to...
The Oscar-winning actor recently returned to her native Scotland after working “almost nonstop” for the past 18 months, at the same time the entertainment business was largely shut down by the coronavirus pandemic.
An Instagram post of Swinton brandishing an appropriately funky face shield with Pedro Almodóvar on the sanguine Madrid set of “The Human Voice” became a viral sensation last summer. In the fall, after accepting the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival, she, alongside her dog Louie, starred in a Wales-set film called “The Eternal Daughter” directed by her oldest friend, “The Souvenir” helmer Joanna Hogg. This year, she celebrated Mardi Gras in Sydney with “Luther” star Idris Elba on her first trip to...
- 6/30/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Among its many annoyances, the streaming revolution has at least expanded accessibility to work in formats that wouldn’t have been commercially viable a decade ago. Plenty of “limited series” are just very long movies chopped into episodes; at the other end of the spectrum are longform music video/artfilm hybrids and featurettes, like Almodóvar’s The Human Voice, that fit neither a theatrical nor broadcast-tv business model.
Then there’s Netflix’s America: The Motion Picture, which has the running time of a conventional feature, but feels less like an actual movie than most hour-and-a-half narratives you’re ever likely to see. A throw-everything-against-the-wall collection of silly ...
Then there’s Netflix’s America: The Motion Picture, which has the running time of a conventional feature, but feels less like an actual movie than most hour-and-a-half narratives you’re ever likely to see. A throw-everything-against-the-wall collection of silly ...
- 6/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Among its many annoyances, the streaming revolution has at least expanded accessibility to work in formats that wouldn’t have been commercially viable a decade ago. Plenty of “limited series” are just very long movies chopped into episodes; at the other end of the spectrum are longform music video/artfilm hybrids and featurettes, like Almodóvar’s The Human Voice, that fit neither a theatrical nor broadcast-tv business model.
Then there’s Netflix’s America: The Motion Picture, which has the running time of a conventional feature, but feels less like an actual movie than most hour-and-a-half narratives you’re ever likely to see. A throw-everything-against-the-wall collection of silly ...
Then there’s Netflix’s America: The Motion Picture, which has the running time of a conventional feature, but feels less like an actual movie than most hour-and-a-half narratives you’re ever likely to see. A throw-everything-against-the-wall collection of silly ...
- 6/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movies: Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, The Skin I Live In, Volver, The Human Voice, Bad Education, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Broken Embraces, Pepi, Luci, Bom, take your pick. […]
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- 6/29/2021
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
This year’s Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff) promises the Australian premieres of highly anticipated local features such as Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson and Justin Kurzel’s Nitram.
Miff unveiled the first slate of projects for its 69th iteration today, which sees it return to cinemas, with the full line-up to be announced July 13.
Purcell’s debut feature, which premiered at SXSW, will form the Opening Night Gala – marking the first time a film from an Indigenous female director has opened the event in its history.
“Leah Purcell’s monumental feature The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson will not just open Miff this year – it will kick the doors in,” said Miff artistic director Al Cossar.
“This is a film made for Miff’s return to cinema – an outback western of grand vision; a resonant, revisionist force of filmmaking that...
Miff unveiled the first slate of projects for its 69th iteration today, which sees it return to cinemas, with the full line-up to be announced July 13.
Purcell’s debut feature, which premiered at SXSW, will form the Opening Night Gala – marking the first time a film from an Indigenous female director has opened the event in its history.
“Leah Purcell’s monumental feature The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson will not just open Miff this year – it will kick the doors in,” said Miff artistic director Al Cossar.
“This is a film made for Miff’s return to cinema – an outback western of grand vision; a resonant, revisionist force of filmmaking that...
- 6/16/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
After earning some of the most acclaim in his career for the semi-autobiographical tale Pain & Glory, Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar adapted to the pandemic times and quickly shot his Tilda Swinton-led English-language debut The Human Voice. Following up that short, he’s now wrapped production on his next feature, Madres Paralelas (aka Parallel Mothers).
Reuniting the director with his longtime collaborators Penélope Cruz, Julieta Serrano, and Rossy de Palma, the film also stars Israel Elejalde, Milena Smit, and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón. The story, which the director reveals will be an “intense drama,” follows women who give birth on the same day and have parallel trajectories in life. Written specifically with Cruz in mind, the story is set in Madrid and will explore “the feminine world of new mothers, of mothers who are raising children in the first and second year,” Cruz said.
With the film picked up for a U.
Reuniting the director with his longtime collaborators Penélope Cruz, Julieta Serrano, and Rossy de Palma, the film also stars Israel Elejalde, Milena Smit, and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón. The story, which the director reveals will be an “intense drama,” follows women who give birth on the same day and have parallel trajectories in life. Written specifically with Cruz in mind, the story is set in Madrid and will explore “the feminine world of new mothers, of mothers who are raising children in the first and second year,” Cruz said.
With the film picked up for a U.
- 6/2/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Pedro Almodóvar has wrapped production on his new feature, “Madres paralelas (Parallel Mothers),” which only started filming in March under strict Covid safety protocols. The film is notable for reuniting the Oscar winner with several of his longtime muses, including Penélope Cruz (their last movie together was 2019’s Cannes winner “Pain and Glory”) and Rossy de Palma (who got her acting start with three Almodóvar movies between 1987 and 1989 and last appeared in the director’s 2016 melodrama “Julieta”). Production company El Deseo celebrated the end of production by releasing first look photos from “Madres” and a behind-the-scenes video from the Covid safety set (see both below).
Joining Cruz and de Palma in the cast are “Veneno” actor Israel Elejalde and “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” star Julieta Serrano, plus Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Milena Smit. Per Variety, the story centers on three mother characters played by Cruz, Gijón and Smit.
Joining Cruz and de Palma in the cast are “Veneno” actor Israel Elejalde and “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” star Julieta Serrano, plus Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Milena Smit. Per Variety, the story centers on three mother characters played by Cruz, Gijón and Smit.
- 6/2/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
El Deseo, the Madrid-based production label of Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar and his Bafta-winning producer brother Agustín, has wrapped shooting on its latest feature production, “Madres paralelas,” starring Penélope Cruz. To celebrate the occasion, El Deseo has released a pair of first-look images as well as a behind the scenes clip of the Covid-era shoot.
Joining Cruz as key cast members are Israel Elejalde (“Veneno”) and two long-time Almodóvar collaborators and “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” co-stars, Julieta Serrano and Rossy de Palma.
“Madres paralelas” – parallel mothers in English – turns on a trio of mothers — played by Cruz, Gijón and Smit — and expands Almodóvar’s previous depictions of womanhood by turning the film’s focus on imperfect mothers.
Almodóvar began developing “Parallel Mothers” several years ago, but as weeks of Spanish lockdowns turned into months, the filmmaker finally had to time to finish up the screenplay and begin pre-production in October.
Joining Cruz as key cast members are Israel Elejalde (“Veneno”) and two long-time Almodóvar collaborators and “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” co-stars, Julieta Serrano and Rossy de Palma.
“Madres paralelas” – parallel mothers in English – turns on a trio of mothers — played by Cruz, Gijón and Smit — and expands Almodóvar’s previous depictions of womanhood by turning the film’s focus on imperfect mothers.
Almodóvar began developing “Parallel Mothers” several years ago, but as weeks of Spanish lockdowns turned into months, the filmmaker finally had to time to finish up the screenplay and begin pre-production in October.
- 6/2/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Takings were significantly up on the reopening in July 2020.
Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (May 21-23) Total gross to date Week 1 Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (Sony) £3.8m £4.6m 1 2 Nomadland (Disney) £496,375 £874,784 1 3 Godzilla Vs. Kong (Warner Bros) Tbc £1.2m 1 4 Spiral: From The Book Of Saw (Lionsgate) £478,682 £776,107 1 5 The Unholy (Sony) £250,391 £455,391 1
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.42
UK box office results for the first weekend post-lockdown in 2021 were positive, as Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway topped the chart with a £3.8m weekend.
The Sony family adventure has taken £4.6m since its release on Monday May 17, at a location average of £9,285 – a hugely impressive figure...
Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (May 21-23) Total gross to date Week 1 Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (Sony) £3.8m £4.6m 1 2 Nomadland (Disney) £496,375 £874,784 1 3 Godzilla Vs. Kong (Warner Bros) Tbc £1.2m 1 4 Spiral: From The Book Of Saw (Lionsgate) £478,682 £776,107 1 5 The Unholy (Sony) £250,391 £455,391 1
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.42
UK box office results for the first weekend post-lockdown in 2021 were positive, as Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway topped the chart with a £3.8m weekend.
The Sony family adventure has taken £4.6m since its release on Monday May 17, at a location average of £9,285 – a hugely impressive figure...
- 5/24/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The director and actor have finally achieved ‘a far-fetched dream’ by working together on his first film in English, The Human Voice. They talk about their mutual admiration, filming in lockdown – and how falling in love can destroy your sense of humour
For more than 30 years, the film-maker Pedro Almodóvar has had a voice in his head – The Human Voice, that is. In Jean Cocteau’s monologue, first performed in 1930, a woman goes to pieces during a telephone conversation with her soon-to-be-ex lover. The audience hears only one side of the exchange, lending her the upper hand in the drama at the precise moment she has been robbed of everything else.
Almodóvar has now adapted Cocteau’s piece into a typically plush half-hour short starring Tilda Swinton as the injured party, though this isn’t his first brush with the material. A performance of the play is glimpsed in his...
For more than 30 years, the film-maker Pedro Almodóvar has had a voice in his head – The Human Voice, that is. In Jean Cocteau’s monologue, first performed in 1930, a woman goes to pieces during a telephone conversation with her soon-to-be-ex lover. The audience hears only one side of the exchange, lending her the upper hand in the drama at the precise moment she has been robbed of everything else.
Almodóvar has now adapted Cocteau’s piece into a typically plush half-hour short starring Tilda Swinton as the injured party, though this isn’t his first brush with the material. A performance of the play is glimpsed in his...
- 5/14/2021
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
After a 14-month hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place. If you don’t live in NYC, some of these films are also available in the respective theater’s Virtual Cinema, so check out the links below.
Film Forum
The new 4K restoration of Melvin Van Peebles’ The Story of a Three–Day Pass is playing daily, along with Pedro Almodóvar’s’ Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown accompanied by his new short The Human Voice.
Museum of the Moving Image
Along with the reopening of their 2001: A Space Odyssey exhibition, they are screening the sci-fi masterpiece and more Kubrick films.
Film Forum
The new 4K restoration of Melvin Van Peebles’ The Story of a Three–Day Pass is playing daily, along with Pedro Almodóvar’s’ Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown accompanied by his new short The Human Voice.
Museum of the Moving Image
Along with the reopening of their 2001: A Space Odyssey exhibition, they are screening the sci-fi masterpiece and more Kubrick films.
- 5/7/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
There she is, stepping out from behind a screen and seen in glorious close-up: the vibrant red dress, the half-shadowed face, the untamed tangle of ginger hair. (We Stan an icon.) For the next half-hour, you’ll see Tilda Swinton’s spurned woman — she is merely referred to as “Woman” — shop for axes at a hardware store in Madrid, attack an empty suit on a bed, try on several gorgeous outfits, beg and plead for a lover’s return over the phone, hang out with a dog named Dash and...
- 4/30/2021
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson)
Watch an exclusive clip for the film, which is also now in theaters.
“What should I do now that I have lost my faith?” is the question that animates About Endlessness; this being the new film by Roy Andersson, it is delivered in a doctor’s waiting room, over and over again, in a creaky voice, by a dumpy man in late middle age who continues his plaint even after the doctor and his receptionist gruntingly force him outside into the hallway, from whence they can hear him scratching at the door like a zombie. About Endlessness is Roy Andersson’s fourth film of this...
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson)
Watch an exclusive clip for the film, which is also now in theaters.
“What should I do now that I have lost my faith?” is the question that animates About Endlessness; this being the new film by Roy Andersson, it is delivered in a doctor’s waiting room, over and over again, in a creaky voice, by a dumpy man in late middle age who continues his plaint even after the doctor and his receptionist gruntingly force him outside into the hallway, from whence they can hear him scratching at the door like a zombie. About Endlessness is Roy Andersson’s fourth film of this...
- 4/30/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Shooting began in Madrid last month on the Spanish auteur’s latest
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the rights to “Parallel Mothers” the next film from Spanish art house auteur Pedro Almodóvar and starring Penélope Cruz.
Filming on the project began last month in Madrid. The film also stars Aitana Sánchez Gijón, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Julieta Serrano and Rossy de Palma.
SPC picked up the rights to “Parallel Mothers” in North America, Australia and New Zealand.
“Parallel Mothers” is a drama that centers on three mothers played by Cruz, Gijón and Smit. Almodóvar has depicted mothers and womanhood in several of his previous films, but this one focuses on imperfect mothers, which marks a departure from his previous work.
Also Read:
‘The Human Voice’ Film Review: Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swinton Speak Heartache Fluently
The film is produced by Agustín Almodóvar (Pedro’s younger brother) and Esther García through...
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the rights to “Parallel Mothers” the next film from Spanish art house auteur Pedro Almodóvar and starring Penélope Cruz.
Filming on the project began last month in Madrid. The film also stars Aitana Sánchez Gijón, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Julieta Serrano and Rossy de Palma.
SPC picked up the rights to “Parallel Mothers” in North America, Australia and New Zealand.
“Parallel Mothers” is a drama that centers on three mothers played by Cruz, Gijón and Smit. Almodóvar has depicted mothers and womanhood in several of his previous films, but this one focuses on imperfect mothers, which marks a departure from his previous work.
Also Read:
‘The Human Voice’ Film Review: Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swinton Speak Heartache Fluently
The film is produced by Agustín Almodóvar (Pedro’s younger brother) and Esther García through...
- 4/23/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Sony Pictures Classics has swooped for Pedro Almodóvar’s Penelope Cruz-fronted “Madres paralelas” in North America, Australia and New Zealand.
Production on the film began last month in Madrid, Spain, and sees the Spanish auteur reuniting with Cruz, a frequent collaborator who most recently starred in “Pain and Glory” opposite Antonio Banderas. Cruz will be joined on screen by former San Sebastián best actress winner Aitana Sánchez Gijón and newcomer Milena Smit (“No matarás”).
Additional casting announced includes Israel Elejalde (“Veneno”) and two long-time Almodóvar collaborators and “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” co-stars, Julieta Serrano and Rossy de Palma.
Produced by Agustín Almodóvar and Esther García through Almodóvar’s production company El Deseo, “Madres Paralelas” marks the 13th collaboration between El Deseo and Sony Pictures Classics.
The pic centers on three mothers — portrayed by Cruz, Gijón and Smit — and expands Almodóvar’s previous depictions of womanhood by...
Production on the film began last month in Madrid, Spain, and sees the Spanish auteur reuniting with Cruz, a frequent collaborator who most recently starred in “Pain and Glory” opposite Antonio Banderas. Cruz will be joined on screen by former San Sebastián best actress winner Aitana Sánchez Gijón and newcomer Milena Smit (“No matarás”).
Additional casting announced includes Israel Elejalde (“Veneno”) and two long-time Almodóvar collaborators and “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” co-stars, Julieta Serrano and Rossy de Palma.
Produced by Agustín Almodóvar and Esther García through Almodóvar’s production company El Deseo, “Madres Paralelas” marks the 13th collaboration between El Deseo and Sony Pictures Classics.
The pic centers on three mothers — portrayed by Cruz, Gijón and Smit — and expands Almodóvar’s previous depictions of womanhood by...
- 4/23/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Sony Pictures Classics has taken all rights in North America, Australia and New Zealand to Pedro Almodóvar’s Madres Paralelas, repping the 13th collaboration between the distributor and the filmmaker’s production company El Deseo. Production began last month on the film in Madrid. The movie also reunites the director with longtime collaborators Penélope Cruz, Julieta Serrano and Rossy de Palma.
Madres Paralelas is a drama that centers on three mothers, portrayed by Cruz, Gijón and Smit. The film expands Almodóvar’s previous depictions of womanhood by turning his focus on imperfect mothers, in a departure from his prior work exploring mothers and motherhood.
Written by Almodóvar, the film also stars Aitana Sánchez Gijón, Milena Smit and Israel Elejalde.
The film is produced by Agustín Almodóvar and Esther García through Almodóvar’s production company El Deseo.
Sony Pictures Classics recently released Almodóvar’s short film The Human Voice, starring Tilda Swinton,...
Madres Paralelas is a drama that centers on three mothers, portrayed by Cruz, Gijón and Smit. The film expands Almodóvar’s previous depictions of womanhood by turning his focus on imperfect mothers, in a departure from his prior work exploring mothers and motherhood.
Written by Almodóvar, the film also stars Aitana Sánchez Gijón, Milena Smit and Israel Elejalde.
The film is produced by Agustín Almodóvar and Esther García through Almodóvar’s production company El Deseo.
Sony Pictures Classics recently released Almodóvar’s short film The Human Voice, starring Tilda Swinton,...
- 4/23/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Short films rarely get the attention they deserve throughout the year, but the 15 that get nominated for Oscars across three categories are the exception to the rule. Representing an entire art form is a lot to ask any one film, but luckily this year’s batch of nominees is well positioned to do the short form justice. This year’s five Best Live-Action Short Film contenders all follow traditional narrative structures, making each humanitarian tale easily accessible to those less familiar with short form.
The shorts category often highlights certain sociopolitical issues, and this year is no different. From racist police brutality to disability to the everyday struggles of a Palestinian family, the five nominees hold a mirror up to the world’s most egregious injustices. While each filmmaker takes a different tact, whether uncomfortable satire to understated drama, all five films address their respective issues with finesse. Here’s...
The shorts category often highlights certain sociopolitical issues, and this year is no different. From racist police brutality to disability to the everyday struggles of a Palestinian family, the five nominees hold a mirror up to the world’s most egregious injustices. While each filmmaker takes a different tact, whether uncomfortable satire to understated drama, all five films address their respective issues with finesse. Here’s...
- 4/8/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Conceived as a short project during Covid lockdown, Pedro Almodovar's The Human Voice, based on Jean Cocteau's stage play, with its popping colors and its melodramatic theme, is a quintessential Almodovar film. It is also a great reflection on filmmaking in the face of a worldwide pandemic. And it's all Tilda. In his first English-language film, Almodovar puts his full trust in Tilda Swinton, who, over the years, has become a larger than life international movie icon, to carry the whole 30 minutes alone carrying on an imaginary conversation with herself. It starts with Swinton in various haute couture clothing walking around in what appears to be a big sound stage. The title sequence is made up of beautiful renderings of various tools, foreshadowing what's...
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- 4/2/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: George Segal and Elliot Gould in California Split (1974). Actor George Segal, a "defining face of 1970s Hollywood" known for his roles in films like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Robert Altman's California Split, has died. The 2021 Jury and Special Award winners of the 28th SXSW Film Festival have been announced, with winners including Megan Park's The Fallout and Jeremy Workman's Lily Topples the World. Recommended VIEWINGFor the series A One-Woman Confessional: Eight Films by Cecilia Mangini, Another Gaze's streaming project Another Screen has also made available a video of Mangini and Agnès Varda's first meeting in 2011. Metrograph's official trailer for Claire Denis' L'Intrus, her 2004 adaptation of an essay by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The film will be available at the cimema's virtual theatre from March 26 to April 8. A fan-made...
- 3/28/2021
- MUBI
One of the most popular Oscar-related annual events returns this year on April 2, but the realities of an exhibition world still transitioning to reopening mean the 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films program will have both theatrical and virtual components this year.
The two-month delay for the Oscars has allowed ShortsTV, now in its 16th year of presenting the short films nominated in three Oscar categories, to still play in a wide range of theaters. However, with many usual locations still closed, the program will add virtual cinemas along with approximately 350 indoor venues.
That’s down from 536 last year (just before theaters shut down), which was the most ever included. This year, some of the leading grossing locations will not be open. In place, about 200 virtual cinemas in partnership with theaters will also present this year.
The program has become one of the most successful specialized releases of each year, with the last three grossing over $3 million.
The two-month delay for the Oscars has allowed ShortsTV, now in its 16th year of presenting the short films nominated in three Oscar categories, to still play in a wide range of theaters. However, with many usual locations still closed, the program will add virtual cinemas along with approximately 350 indoor venues.
That’s down from 536 last year (just before theaters shut down), which was the most ever included. This year, some of the leading grossing locations will not be open. In place, about 200 virtual cinemas in partnership with theaters will also present this year.
The program has become one of the most successful specialized releases of each year, with the last three grossing over $3 million.
- 3/25/2021
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Oscar nominations morning has come and gone, and TheWrap takes a look at nods that came as a surprise — and who was snubbed.
Snub: Regina King
Regina King was shockingly left out of the Best Director category for “One Night in Miami.” Instead, Thomas Vinterberg took her place for directing “Another Round” (which we discuss below). King had been nominated in the category at the Globes, as well as the Critics Choice Awards.
Surprise: Lakeith Stanfield in Best Supporting
The actor received a surprise nomination in the category Best Supporting Actor… alongside his costar, Daniel Kaluuya, who has been sweeping the awards season for his role in “Judas and the Black Messiah.” David Straithairn, for his role in “Nomadland,” was left out, as was Chadwick Boseman for his role in “Da 5 Bloods.” Of course, Boseman received a Best Actor nod for his role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”
Surprise:...
Snub: Regina King
Regina King was shockingly left out of the Best Director category for “One Night in Miami.” Instead, Thomas Vinterberg took her place for directing “Another Round” (which we discuss below). King had been nominated in the category at the Globes, as well as the Critics Choice Awards.
Surprise: Lakeith Stanfield in Best Supporting
The actor received a surprise nomination in the category Best Supporting Actor… alongside his costar, Daniel Kaluuya, who has been sweeping the awards season for his role in “Judas and the Black Messiah.” David Straithairn, for his role in “Nomadland,” was left out, as was Chadwick Boseman for his role in “Da 5 Bloods.” Of course, Boseman received a Best Actor nod for his role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”
Surprise:...
- 3/15/2021
- by Beatrice Verhoeven and Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
It immediately says something about the differences between Jean Cocteau’s brilliant 1928 dramatic monologue The Human Voice — as first put on screen in 1948 by Roberto Rossellini with the immortal Anna Magnani — and Pedro Almodovar’s new version of it starring Tilda Swinton, that the latter features six costume changes within the first six minutes, while the original was content with a single drab bit of wardrobe.
There are few single-character pieces of 20th century theater as mesmerizing and emotionally intricate as Cocteau’s soliloquy in which a woman spends a half-hour on the phone with her lover coping with the devastating news that he’s about to marry someone else. Swinton indisputably belongs in the select group of actresses who could pull this off, but the ever-arresting Spanish director, in his first English-language outing, is preoccupied with other issues as well, notably the notion of the fine, if not (for...
There are few single-character pieces of 20th century theater as mesmerizing and emotionally intricate as Cocteau’s soliloquy in which a woman spends a half-hour on the phone with her lover coping with the devastating news that he’s about to marry someone else. Swinton indisputably belongs in the select group of actresses who could pull this off, but the ever-arresting Spanish director, in his first English-language outing, is preoccupied with other issues as well, notably the notion of the fine, if not (for...
- 1/16/2021
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Joan Micklin Silver on the set of Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979). Trailblazing filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver, best known for films Hester Street (1975) and Crossing Delancey (1988), has died. In an interview with Film Comment in 2017, Silver described the will she possessed as a woman filmmaker who wished to spotlight stories about female relationships and women's labor: "I didn’t want to feel like the woman director. I wanted to feel like one of many women directors."The 71st edition of the Berlin Film Festival will be replacing this year's physical event with a virtual European Film Market in March, and a "mini-festival with a series of onsite world premieres" in June.The International Film Festival Rotterdam has also announced the lineup for this year's hybrid multi-part 50th edition, to be presented between February 1-...
- 1/6/2021
- MUBI
As we continue to explore the best in 2020, today we’re taking a look at the articles that you, our dear readers, enjoyed the most throughout the past twelve months. Spanning reviews, interviews, features, podcasts, news, and trailers, check out the highlights below and return for more year-end coverage as well as a glimpse into 2021 in the coming weeks.
Most-Read Reviews
10. The Book of Vision
9. King of the Cruise
8. Audrey
7. Mank
6. My Dinner with Alan: A Sopranos Session
5. A Rainy Day in New York
4. American Utopia
3. 69: The Saga of Daniel Hernandez
2. The Empty Man
1. We Summon the Darkness
Most-Read Interviews
10. Josh Hartnett on Becoming the Character Actor He Always Tried to Be
9. Emerald Fennell on Subverting the Revenge Thriller with Promising Young Woman and the Horrors of the Patriarchal System
8. Angela Schanelec on I Was at Home, But…, the Kindness of Ozu, and Her Filmmaking Philosophies
7. Abel Ferrara on...
Most-Read Reviews
10. The Book of Vision
9. King of the Cruise
8. Audrey
7. Mank
6. My Dinner with Alan: A Sopranos Session
5. A Rainy Day in New York
4. American Utopia
3. 69: The Saga of Daniel Hernandez
2. The Empty Man
1. We Summon the Darkness
Most-Read Interviews
10. Josh Hartnett on Becoming the Character Actor He Always Tried to Be
9. Emerald Fennell on Subverting the Revenge Thriller with Promising Young Woman and the Horrors of the Patriarchal System
8. Angela Schanelec on I Was at Home, But…, the Kindness of Ozu, and Her Filmmaking Philosophies
7. Abel Ferrara on...
- 1/3/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Some promising updates have arrived regarding two fan favorite auteurs: Pedro Almodóvar and Darren Aronofsky. Both artists appear set to begin work on new feature films in 2021. In an interview with Screen Daily, Almodóvar’s brother and longtime producer Agustin Almodóvar revealed March 2021 is being eyed to start production on “Parallel Mothers,” Pedro’s latest feature. The project is set to reunite the filmmaker with his acting muse Penélope Cruz and will not head to streaming despite multiple offers.
“For those of us who love seeing films on the big screen these are worrying times, as the threat of the theatrical window cracking comes closer and closer,” Augustin said. “However, we think theatrical exhibition should be fought for. Old-school as we are, we are planning Pedro’s next feature for the theatrical circuit despite several offers for it to be original content from streamers.”
The script for “Parallel Mothers” is...
“For those of us who love seeing films on the big screen these are worrying times, as the threat of the theatrical window cracking comes closer and closer,” Augustin said. “However, we think theatrical exhibition should be fought for. Old-school as we are, we are planning Pedro’s next feature for the theatrical circuit despite several offers for it to be original content from streamers.”
The script for “Parallel Mothers” is...
- 12/28/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The physical experience of the cinema in 2020 has been a fragmented stop and start scenario. Not being able to visit the cinema has been discouraging, but in putting this mix together I was reminded, pandemic aside, there have been new movies worth getting excited about and distinctive music and sounds to accompany them. Over the 1 hour, 39 minute run time this mix stops and starts in different mood zones, symmetrical to the year it represents. Between pieces of original score and soundtrack are voices and sounds, sometimes of hope, sometimes more sinister. Meandering in pace, this mix is a snapshot of feelings, as quickly as they come they move into different territory. We open with extracts from Garrett Bradely’s Time, these echoes of childhood and family swirl forward years as if inside a sonic time capsule. We hear voices weave in and out, “lots of things changed since the beginning of this tape.
- 12/28/2020
- MUBI
Whatever the future holds both for theatrical distribution and for at-home streaming, 2020 will no doubt mark the pivot point in which the destinies of both would forever change. But where and how one sees films will inevitably be less important than the films themselves, and even in this year of turmoil, there was always something to recommend, wherever it was available to be seen.
Notable Runners-Up: “The 40-Year-Old Version,” “Ammonite,” “Another Round,” “And Then We Danced,” “The August Virgin,” “Birds of Prey,” “Da 5 Bloods,” “Emma.,” “The Half of It,” “Happiest Season,” “House of Hummingbird,” “I’m No Longer Here,” “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” “The Invisible Man,” “Kajillionaire,” “Let Them All Talk,” “Lingua Franca,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Madre,” “Miss Juneteenth,” “The Nest,” “Nomadland,” “One Night in Miami,” “The Photograph,” “The Secret Garden,” “She Dies Tomorrow,” “A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon,” “Shirley,” “Sorry We Missed You,” “Tigertail,” “The Truth,...
Notable Runners-Up: “The 40-Year-Old Version,” “Ammonite,” “Another Round,” “And Then We Danced,” “The August Virgin,” “Birds of Prey,” “Da 5 Bloods,” “Emma.,” “The Half of It,” “Happiest Season,” “House of Hummingbird,” “I’m No Longer Here,” “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” “The Invisible Man,” “Kajillionaire,” “Let Them All Talk,” “Lingua Franca,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Madre,” “Miss Juneteenth,” “The Nest,” “Nomadland,” “One Night in Miami,” “The Photograph,” “The Secret Garden,” “She Dies Tomorrow,” “A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon,” “Shirley,” “Sorry We Missed You,” “Tigertail,” “The Truth,...
- 12/28/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
What becomes a legend most?
Well, in the case of the Oscar-winning 86-year-old Sophia Loren, a terrific role in the new Netflix movie “The Life Ahead,” which premiered on Nov. 13 to rave reviews. The film is also a valentine from her youngest son Edoardo Ponti who co-adapted and directed the drama based on Romain Gary’s 1975 novel “The Life Before Us.”
Loren plays Madame Rosa, a former prostitute and Holocaust survivor living in Naples who now takes care of children of prostitutes. But she has her hands full with her latest charge, a 12-year-old Senegalese immigrant named Momo (Ibrahim Gueye). Rosa may seem like the ultimate earth foster mother, but she is haunted by fevered memories of her time at Auschwitz and more and more frequently drifts away from reality.
If the plotline of “The Life Ahead” sounds familiar, the Gary novel was originally adapted as “Madame Rosa,” an Oscar-winning...
Well, in the case of the Oscar-winning 86-year-old Sophia Loren, a terrific role in the new Netflix movie “The Life Ahead,” which premiered on Nov. 13 to rave reviews. The film is also a valentine from her youngest son Edoardo Ponti who co-adapted and directed the drama based on Romain Gary’s 1975 novel “The Life Before Us.”
Loren plays Madame Rosa, a former prostitute and Holocaust survivor living in Naples who now takes care of children of prostitutes. But she has her hands full with her latest charge, a 12-year-old Senegalese immigrant named Momo (Ibrahim Gueye). Rosa may seem like the ultimate earth foster mother, but she is haunted by fevered memories of her time at Auschwitz and more and more frequently drifts away from reality.
If the plotline of “The Life Ahead” sounds familiar, the Gary novel was originally adapted as “Madame Rosa,” an Oscar-winning...
- 11/17/2020
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
The decision was reached earlier today after festival heads met with municipal and health authorities as well as the culture ministry.
The 2020 edition of the Thessaloniki international Film Festival (November 5-15) is moving fully online after previously being set to run as a hybrid event.
Screen has learned that the decision was reached earlier today (Oct 28) after festival heads met with municipal and health authorities as well as the culture ministry.
The festival was set to screen international competition titles and a number of other events at seven venues in the city. However, the recent rise in Covid cases in...
The 2020 edition of the Thessaloniki international Film Festival (November 5-15) is moving fully online after previously being set to run as a hybrid event.
Screen has learned that the decision was reached earlier today (Oct 28) after festival heads met with municipal and health authorities as well as the culture ministry.
The festival was set to screen international competition titles and a number of other events at seven venues in the city. However, the recent rise in Covid cases in...
- 10/28/2020
- by Alexis Grivas
- ScreenDaily
What’s left for the Oscars? The telecast will proceed, two months late, on April 25, but as to what might qualify — the only definitive answer will come when we reach the February 28 submission deadline. As a canary in a coal mine, “Tenet” failed to reignite audiences; instead, it revealed the hazards of theatrical play. With theaters in New York and Los Angeles still closed, many North American moviegoers are not yet ready to support a wide, expensive indoor release.
Hollywood waits to hear the fate of the next James Bond movie (is the UK ready for a wide opening in November?), Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic “Dune”, and Paul Greengrass’ Tom Hanks Christmas movie “News of the World,” which has been compared to Oscar-contender “True Grit.”
And then there’s Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch.” The high-profile Searchlight title was noticeably absent from Disney’s latest announcement of releases...
Hollywood waits to hear the fate of the next James Bond movie (is the UK ready for a wide opening in November?), Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic “Dune”, and Paul Greengrass’ Tom Hanks Christmas movie “News of the World,” which has been compared to Oscar-contender “True Grit.”
And then there’s Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch.” The high-profile Searchlight title was noticeably absent from Disney’s latest announcement of releases...
- 9/24/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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