mmuch awaited, the film by Jonathan Glazer (British filmmaker author of only 4 films, the last one in 2013 was Under the Skin), The Zone of Interest is based on the homonymous novel by Martin Amis and was filmed in Auschwitz. A camp commandant and his wife try to build peaceful living conditions for their small family in a garden pavilion not far from the camp. But something unforeseen happens and threatens everything they’ve built.
Les filles d’Olfa by the Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania is the result of the fusion between a documentary nucleus (the author is on her fifth feature film, a journey begun on the Croisette with Challat of Tunisia and continued in Locarno in 2016 with the documentary Zaineb Hates the Snow) and fiction in which professional actors and non-actors mix.
Olfa Hamrouni is a Tunisian mother of four daughters, the two eldest one day disappear without explanation. The director invites two actresses to play the two absent young women.
The protagonists of Les filles d’Olfa.
out of competition, Eureka by Lisandro Alonso with Viggo Mortensen, Chiara Mastroianni and the inhabitants of the Pine Ridge reserveis a title that attracts us.
The Argentine filmmaker who with Viggo Mortensen had already shot the beautiful Jaujatalks about very concrete journeys that the protagonist, a reserve policewoman makes during her patrol service and those, in time and space, of her niece Sadie, no longer willing to accept Western films’ misrepresentation of Native Americans.
Still relationship between natives and settlers in the center of The New Boy by Warwick Thornton, for Un certain regard. Cate Blanchett is a heartbroken nun, as can be seen from the Pietà that he embodies in the only available image of the film. A renegade nun, Blanchett takes an Aboriginal orphan into a remote monastery. The director, the biographies report, at the age of 13, was sent to school in the only city in Australia that hosts a monastery: New Norcia, Western Australia.
For Cannes Classics the documentary Liv Ullmann – A Road Less Travelled explore the iconic actress, writer, director, author and activist’s multifaceted life and her own extraordinary international career spanning over 66 years. Using intimate contributions from some of Liv’s closest companions, the film promises to unlock the secret behind Liv’s protagonist’s universal appeal and longevity. Whispers and shouts And Autumn Symphony.
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