A biopic about the swimmer Diana Nyad, with Annette Bening and Jodie Foster is another of the great news
After passing through the Cannes Festival, it hits theaters this Friday one of the great premieres of 2023“The Moon Killers” by Martin Scorsese, along with “The Red Island” by Robin Campillo or a biopic about the swimmer Diana Nyad, with Annette Bening and Jodie Foster.
‘The Moon Killers’
Martin Scorsese brings together his two fetish actors for the first time, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niroin “The Moon Killers”, a film that recounts the abuses committed against the Osage Indians in Oklahoma a century ago, to take away their oil-rich lands.
Based on the novel of the same name by David Grann, which in turn is inspired by real events, the plot revolves around a series of murders perpetrated against the Osage, which also represented one of the first major cases of the then newly created FBI.
‘The red island’
The French filmmaker Robin Campillo evokes his childhood in Madagascar in “The Red Island”, a film that takes place on that African island in the final stage of French colonization, in the 1970s.
His fourth feature film as a director comes after obtaining the Grand Jury Prize from Cannes with “120 beats per minute”, and features Nadia Tereszkiewicz and the Spanish Quim Gutiérrez in the cast.
‘The animal kingdom’
In a world swept by a wave of mutations that gradually transform some humans into animals, a man does everything possible to save his wifeaffected by this mysterious disease.
Romain Duris, Paul Kircher and Adèle Exarchopoulos star in this fantastic drama directed by Thomas Cailley that opened the “Un certain regard” section of the last Cannes Film Festival and won the award for best special effects in Sitges.
‘The legacy’
After directing series like “Blood” (2018) and “Years and tears” (2018), director Lisa Mulcahy returns to the feature film with a period thriller that chronicles the awakening and resistance of a young woman punished by the death of her father and forced to live under the guardianship of her uncle.
With a dominant Agnes O’Casey leading the cast, the film is based on the novel “Uncle Silas” by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and takes place on a remote farm in Ireland.
‘Nyad’
At age 64, Olympic swimmer Diana Nyad was the first person to complete the “Everest of swimming” from Cuba to Florida. The film “Nyad” chronicles her exploits, with Annette Bening as the heroine, accompanied by Jodie Foster and Rhys Ifans.
It is a production of Netflix which will have a limited release in theaters and will arrive on the platform on November 3.
‘Forbidden game’
The Japanese Hideo Nakata, director of “The Ring” (1998), returns with a ghost film, which navigates between terror, comedy and melodrama, which he has just presented at the Sitges Festival, where he received an honorary award in recognition of his career.
“Forbidden Game” focuses on a television reporter who visits the house of a former colleague, on the occasion of the death of his wife, and finds the widower’s son reciting a mysterious spell in the garden. From this moment on, inexplicable phenomena begin to happen.
‘My other Jon’
The new film of Paco Arango is a science fiction comedy that revolves around Merche (Carmen Maura), a 77-year-old woman with a terminal illness who decides to live her last days with an intensity that her body does not allow, so she transfers her soul to the body of Jon (Fernando Albizu), a Basque truck driver.
Like Arango’s previous projects (“Maktub”, “What Really Matters” and “The Rodriguezes and the Beyond”), “My other Jon” will allocate all its profits to help children with cancer through the Aladina Foundation and, on this occasion, also to support those affected by the La Palma volcano.
‘Lucky path’
The debut of Jorge Alonso, starring Tito Valverde and María Jesús Sirvent, tells the story of a 75-year-old man who, after his wife dies, takes refuge in the town where he was born, resigned to waiting his turn, until his best friend, who refuses to let him fall, ambushes him for love.
The film marks Sirvent’s film debut, focusing until now on the theater and who has also been Valverde’s royal partner for three decades.
‘Conversations about hate’
Argentine Vera Fogwill, screenwriter, producer and director of “Conversations about hate”, adapts his own theatrical work and puts him face to face Cecilia Roth and Maricel Álvarez in a conversation in which topics such as motherhood, friendship, happiness or illness come up.
Roth brings to life Deborah, a depressive and manipulative woman who welcomes into her home an actress whom she once represented as an agent. The conversation, not without a certain black humor, becomes charged with tension, in an increasingly oppressive climate.
‘Vermeer: the largest exhibition in history’
After breaking the collection record for an art documentary in the United Kingdom (1.2 million euros), the film about the historic exhibition on Vermeer by The Rijksmuseum from Amsterdam, a retrospective that brought together 28 of the 37 paintings by the Dutch artist from the 17th century.
‘Bidasoa 2018-2023’
The founder of bands like Kortatu or Negu Gorriak and filmmaker Fermín Muguruza narrates in the documentary “Bidasoa 2018-2023” the death of immigrants in the Bidasoa River in 2018 as a result of police control and closure of some border crossings by the French authorities.
‘O home eo can’
Manuel is a man with diminished intellectual abilities who has never left his village, where he lives alone with his dog until an accident forces him to go into the city in search of a veterinarian and there he meets Paula.
Manuel Manquiña and Paula Chaves are the protagonists of this drama about friendship in solitude, filmed entirely in Galician and in black and white and directed by Ángel de la Cruz.
‘Mother there is only one’
Documentary directed by Jesús García that collects the testimonies of six mothers, some from large families, who claim to exercise “a happy motherhood” despite “the current social pressure that seems to promulgate just the opposite.”