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Editorial A Rainy Day in New York A young couple arrives in New York for a weekend where they are met with bad weather and a series of adventures.
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Light Of My Life Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world’s population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond, and the character of humanity is tested.
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About Endlessness Roy Andersson adds to his cinematic oeuvre with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality.
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The Roads Not Taken Sally Potter’s film follows a day in the life of Leo and his Daughter Molly, as he floats through alternate lives, he could have lived, leading Molly to wrestle her own path as she considers her own future.
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Life With Music An acclaimed concert pianist returns to the stage after a prolonged absence and finds himself with a severe case of stage fright.
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Around The Sun Touring a repossessed chateau, a film scout falls for its flirtatious representative, who recounts the story of an influential book written there.
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FilmFest Follower Venice An exciting look at the screening schedule at this year’s film festival
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EDITORIAL Hello film lovers. Here we are again welcoming you to another passion-packed issue of MbM. Our cover feature and main review is Woody Allen’s latest film “A Rainy Day in New York”, which has all the trademarks that we can expect and love from Woody. The star of the film is Elle Fanning who graces our cover. Other reviews are of “Light of My Life”, directed and starring Casey Affleck. “About Endlessness”, “Life with Music”, “Around the Sun”. ”The Roads Not Taken”. We are very pleased to publish FilmFest Follower again with the scheduled screenings for the Venice Film Festival which is one of the major highlights of the year and will still run, though the programme is a little shorter this year due to the intrusion of Covid 19 and the restrictions which must be adhered to for safety and health precautions. Venice is the oldest film festival in the world.
Director Alberto Barbera has announced that the core of the annual film festival will remain intact with around 20 features selected for the main competition, known as Venezia. Savour the features in this issue of Movies by Mills. Enjoy the read.
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Paul Ridler Magazine Designer
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A RAINY DAY IN NEW YORK Directed by Woody Allen Starring: Timothee Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Selena Gomez, Jude Law, Diego Luna, Liv Schreiber Oh my God, you’re Francisco Vega! - Ashleigh Is that good or bad? - Francisco Vega My roommate thinks you’re the best thing to come along since the morning-after pill. - Asleigh Any Allen afficionado will gladly welcome his latest movie and its references to the city he loves which even rain manages to glisten. “New York was his town. And it always would be.” - Manhattan There is a scene in “A Rainy Day in New York” when Ashleigh is enthusiastically explaining to Gatsby what is happening. “I’ve got an interview with Roland Pollard”. “And it’s on campus?” “Em..Em It’s in Manhattan” And Manhattan is spoken in awe. “A Rainy Day in New York” proves once again that Woody Allen is a master storyteller and weaves magical characters into believable storylines. Here we have college sweethearts, Gatsby (Chalamet) and Ashleigh (Fanning), whose plans for a romantic weekend together in New York City are dashed as quickly as the sunlight turns into showers. The two are soon parted, and through a series of chance meetings and comical adventures they will discover that, while you only live once, once is enough if you find the right person. It is very comforting to be able to enjoy the latest Woody Allen movie because he has an enviable oeuvre of movies and here is a continuous love affair with New York. He still is one of the the greatest filmmakers in the business and that is because he brings out the best in his actors and he has worked with the finest. Just watch how Fanning and Chalamet fit into the storyline, consequently making you feel that you can relate to them. No one tells a story like Woody Allen: it exudes charisma and you don’t want to leave the young lovers and their aspirations and added to this is the genuine enthusiasm that Ashley shows when she tells Gatsby she has met Francisco Vega! Ashley loves acting and her bubbling personality defines her character when she excitedly relates to Gatsby that she has got an interview with film director Rolland Pollard. “A Rainy Day in New York” will not disappoint Woody Allen’s fans but is likely to win him even more. Available on digital platforms 4
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WOODY ALLEN: Next film will be “Rifkin’s Festival”, which tells of a married couple who go to the San Sebastian Festival and get caught up in the magic of the event, the beauty and charm of the city and the fantasy of movies. It stars Christoph Waltz, Gina Gershon, Steve Guttenberg, Wallace Shawn, Elena Anaya. The film will open the San Sebastian Film Festival on September 18th
ELLE FANNING: At the age of three she played her real-life Dakota’s sister in “I Am Sam”. In “The Beguiled” Directed by Sofia Coppola, Elle played one of the schoolgirls. It was about the unexpected arrival of a wounded Union at a girl’s school in Virginia during the American Civil War which leads to jealousy and betrayal. She starred in “Somewhere” Directed by Sofia Coppola. A moving story about the special bond between a father and his daughter. Actor Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is leading the fast-paced life of women and pills when his 11-year daughter, Cleo (Elle Fanning) unexpectedly arrives at his room at Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont hotel. Their time together encourages Johnny to re-question his life in ways he never expected. Elle was also sensational in “Teen Spirit” which was a modern fairytale that unfolds like a Pop spectacle. Violet (Elle Fanning) is a shy teenager who dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion to sing. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a local singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition. Driven by a pop-fuelled soundtrack, Teen Spirit is a visceral and stylish spin on the Cinderella story.
TIMOTHEE CHALAMET: Had a big break in his career when he got a part in Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” at the age of 15. “Call Me By Your Name” followed, and then the role of Kyle Scheible in Greta Gerwig’s excellent teen comedy “Lady Bird”, Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan)fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong-willed mum (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird’s father (Tracy Letts) loses his job. “Lady Bird” is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home. Then came Chalamet’s titular role as Hal in “The King”. A wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind and the emotional strings of his past life. Chalamet followed “The King” appearing for the second time in a film directed by Greta Gerwig “Little Women” and starring Saoirse Ronan. Having built up such a strong and inspiring filmography, he even topped all the roles he has had with Gatsby in Woody Allen’s “A Rainy Day in New York”.
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Chan (Selena Gomez) & Gatsby (Thimothee Chalamet) in A Rainy Day in New York
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Gatsby (Timothee Chalamet) in A Rainy Day in New York
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LIGHT OF MY LIFE Directed by Casey Affleck Starring: Casey Affleck, Anna Pniowsky, Tom Bower. “You know what? I kinda like it here”. - Father “Me too”. - Daughter, Rag.
Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world’s population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond, and this character of humanity, is tested. Disguising his daughter as a boy, the father struggles to protect her from newfound threats as they are forced from their home into dangerous territory. Prepared to defend his daughter at all costs, he is truly tested. “Light of My Life” is a breath-taking edge-of-yourseat suspense thriller. The film opens with the father (Casey Affleck) and his young daughter (Anna Pniowsky) lie in a tent at night and he tells her a bedtime story as he goes, prodding her into laughter with subtle asides. But the most revealing piece about this scene is the story he tells and how he tells it. He begins by saying it will be a story about a ‘tough’ female fox. The fox and her mate have this whole adventure while Noah’s Ark. As the story progresses, the male fox’s shenanigans takes over the narrative. Rag (daughter) notices this and says: “You said this would be about the girl, why do you keep talking about the boy?” Affleck is making a point here, which is: men forget about women’s narratives and half the time they do not even notice they are doing it. Even when they supposedly centralize women, they are still outside of it, seeing things from the male’s point of view. During this same scene, we see a glimpse of the context of their world. Rag asks her father “Am I the only girl of my species?” This is not just some casual weekend camping trip. “Light of MY Life” is a post-apocalyptic story, a pandemic has destroyed the female population on the planet, including the unnamed father’s wife and Rag’s mother (Elizabeth Moss) in 8
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flashbacks. Now father and daughter hide out in the woods. The world is now populated only by men, so the anomaly of Rag, apparently immune – is fraught with danger. Rag’s hair is shorn short, she wears caps and baggy track suits. Her body has not begun to develop yet. She looks like a scrappy little boy. For long periods of time, they are the only humans we see. The landscape is deserted. The cinematographer often films in longshot, the two figures dwarfed by spookiness. The film is an admirable and challenging project for Affleck to choose for his directional debut, but he undoubtedly pulls it off.
CASEY AFFLECK: Born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA in 1975. Parents are divorced: mother a schoolteacher and his father a social worker. Casey’s brother is actor, Ben Affleck, who was born in 1972. He is mostly English, Irish, German, and Scottish ancestry. An accomplished actor and an Academy Award winner, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in the character drama “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Directed by Andrew Dominik. The Warner Bros. film stars Casey as ‘Ford’ opposite Brad Pitt’s ‘Jesse James’. The story follows Ford’s sycophantic obsession with ‘James’ that quickly turns into growing resentment after he joins the legendary outlaw’s gang, leading to his subsequent plan to murder ‘James’ and claim his rightful glory. Casey also garnered significant praise for his starring role in the Miramax film “Gone Baby Gone”. It was directed by Ben Affleck. The film tells the story of two Boston detectives in search of a four-year-old girl who has been kidnapped. The film also stars Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman and Michelle Monaghan. What the two detectives unravel is a multitude of twists and turns where nothing is what it seems. Ultimately, they must risk everything – their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives – in the search to find her. Casey carries a beautifully understated intensity in this mesmerizing crime thriller. About inspiration: “The four movies I can remember seeing when I was a kid were “The Elephant Man”(1980)”The Magnificent Seven” “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (1966) and “Mad Max”. Well, “Light of My Life” will surely inspire many writers, and actors and directors.
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Father (Casey Affleck) in Love of My Life
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ABOUT ENDLESSNESS Directed by Roy Andersson Starring: Bengt Bergius, Anja Broms, Marie Burman, Amanda Davies I saw a man who had lost his way. I saw a woman incapable of feeling shame. - Off-Screen voice Female.
A couple floats in the sky above a colony ravaged by war, teenage girls dance outside a bar; a defeated army marches to a prison camp; a young man has not yet met love; another is expressed in high scientific concepts ; a priest who has lost faith and vocation, seeks help from a psychologist, who does not work for free and cannot miss the bus home. The film is a succession of sketches on the banality of everyday life in a city, where you meet an old schoolmate Sverker Olsson and obsesses that he has made more of a career than you, where everything happens for economic transactions, with a rhythm and a routine to be respected. Even a psychologist asks for a substantial fee to a priest in a vocational crisis and refuses to assist him in a problem because he has now reached the end of his working hours. Even the director’s static cinema is a form of resistance. A neat and clean system, where the ghost where the ghost of Nazism aligns, not even hidden. Here Hitler himself appears in a decadent context. The director’s trademarks can be seen everywhere: a firing squad, troops marching towards a field of captivity, a city raised to the ground, characters struggling to speak, as though it is their last breath, a waiter pouring wine, men with their mind somewhere elsewhere, suburban bars, shopping malls, shops decorated with bare plants, a priest in a crisis of faith and vocation. Gentle lighting so that shadows are never pitch black. Stationary camera. Stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture. Meticulously designed sets. Long tableaux shots. Bleak social criticism. Absurdist comedy and surrealism. Lars von Trier once described Andersson as the only Palme d’Or competitor he truly fears. In 1975, he took a 25-year break from film directing. 12
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Finances his films by making commercials. He also spent much of his professional life working on advertisement spots, directing over 400 commercials. Ingmar Bergman was his inspector at the film school in Sweden he attended. Village Voice branded him the ‘slapstick Ingmar Bergman depressing’.
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Is a fan of Luis Bunuel, Vittoria De Sica, Federico Fellini, and Samuel Beckett. His most important source of inspiration is painting and its history, and photo history as well. Especially the expressionism they had in Germany between the two World Wars.. Is the author of two books. Born on the same date as Oscar-winner Christopher Walken. PERSONAL QUOTES: “I’m one for solidarity. A society where one shares and feels responsibility towards others. Unfortunately, we’ve had a period where to look after one another is seen as old-fashioned. This is the path Sweden has taken politically. But it’s evident that it hasn’t worked out. It is a painful insight, which I think people will start to realise more and more”. (on the wide shot) “I think that the wide shot tells a lot about the human being that a close-up can’t. About their place in the world. The wide shot defines the human being more than the close-up because, for example, the room where the person is tells about his tastes, his life. Even if it’s not home, you can read the history of a person better in a wide shot. When you read this wide shot, there are so many elements that make the picture more tragic”. (on his passion for making films) “There are some subjects that I’m dealing all the time. The vulnerability of the human being. Humiliation, when people humiliate each other and when they humiliate themselves”.
As the title of the film “About Endlessness” suggests, it observes human mediocrity by contemplating infinity. A cerebral narrative that seems endless.
Awards: Dublin International Film Festival 2020 Winner Dublin Film Critics Award: Best Director – Roy Andersson Goldbagge 2020 Winner Best Set Design Venice Film Festival 2019 Winner Silver Lion For Best Director — Roy Andersson European Film Awards 2019 Winner Visual Effects
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Uncredited Characters in About Endlessness
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Uncredited Characters in About Endlessness
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THE ROADS NOT TAKEN Directed By Sally Potter Starring: Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning, Laura Linney, Salma Hayek “Dad, do you want to tell me something?” - Molly “Everything is open”.” - Leo
The film’s narrative follows a day in the life of Leo (Javier Bardem) and his daughter, Molly (Elle Fanning), as he floats through alternate lives he could have lived, leading Molly to wrestle with her own path as she considers her future.
Influenced by Sally Potter’s own memories of caring for her own brother with early onset dementia. Fanning plays the writer’s caring daughter, fretting over her dad, Leo, over a day in New York, refusing to surrender to the fact that the father she once knew is drifting away. The film is a bit of a mishmash of moments, few which are memorable enough to take up residence in your mind to replay at will which we aesthetics do for films that tick all the boxes. There is no question that the cast is excellent, but with Javier Bardem and Elle Fanning as the leads, it would be having to be a total disaster to fail in the acting department and it doesn’t. Bardem is astounding as Leo portraying the painful bewilderment and confusion of what is happening to him as the result of the symptoms of dementia. Molly (Elle Fanning) loves her father and cannot believe what has happened to him. She is losing him. Leo is in a fantasy world venturing to other lands, (roads not taken) in his mind; lives he might have lived, but didn’t, after he left Mexico for the US at a young age. Meanwhile, his human shell remains beside a struggling Molly, who desperately tries to break into those imagined worlds that unfold in her father’s mind and soul, and the gibberish words he uses.
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“Dolores” he mutters. Ah, we learn from Molly’s mom Rita (Laura Linney) that Dolores (Salma Hayek) was Leo’s first love, proceeding to witness a marriage that never was between the fiery duo in rural Mexico. Because Molly wants to believe that her father is still there, she cracks when anyone refers to him as a third person as if he is not in the room
JAVIER BARDEM: He has worked with seven directors who have won a Best Director Oscar: Milos Forman, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Woody Allen, Alejandro G. Inarritu and Sam Mendes. It is the second time that Javier has starred in a film directed by Woody Allen, personally memorable for him because on that film he met Penelope Cruz and their relationship began and they have two children. “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” became one of the most talked about movies when released. An erotically charged movie, relentlessly hilarious and touching romantic comedy that won Penelope Cruz a Best performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role – an Oscar for her dazzling portrayal of the volatile Maria. Javier Bardem played an infamous bohemian artist called Juan. In a screenplay Javier says: “All of the good movies are based on how that story is told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that’s for sure, no matter who.” “The only thing I can do is act, but it’s not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I’m a shy person, even if I don’t look it.” One thing for sure is that Juan Bardem is ideally cast in “The Roads Not Taken”. It would be hard to imagine anyone else in his role. Like his co-star Elle Fanning, he plays his role that in a way that is both surprising and challenging. Yes, the film has its faults but casting the actors was not one of them.
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LIFE WITH MUSIC Directed by Claude Lalonde Starring: Patrick Stewart, Katie Holmes, Giancarlo Esposito. “I’ll be listening”. - Helen Morrison (Katie Holmes) “I’ll be playing for you”. - Henry Field (Patrick Stewart)
Henry Field (Patrick Stewart) is an acclaimed concert pianist and one of the great virtuosi of his era. Upon returning to the stage after a prolonged absence, he finds himself suddenly afflicted with a severe case of stage fright. His once effortless playing has abruptly turned into a self-conscious struggle of every bar. Old wounds have crept up on the master as he now fights to ward off artistic disaster. Enter Helen Morrison (Katie Holmes), a music critic with a kindred spirit and a troubled past of her own. Helen believes she might hold the key to Henry’s return to form, but she must first overcome his defences and win his trust. As Henry’s condition starts to improve, the blossoming relationship take as unexpected turn which could precipice his downfall. Unless he finally faces his demons and the darker lurking beneath the glory of the stage. When Henry reveals to Helen what still lingers in that darkness of his mind: the death of his wife whom he loved and treasured, a loss that stopped him playing for two years, a loss which was unbearable, a loss that he never talked about to anyone, until he met Helen, who not only listened but understood the suffering he had been through. Henry’s friend and agent was always there for him through the good and bad times. When Henry had one of his panic attacks, when the deafening sound of applause awaited him and terrified him and the cries of ‘encore’ petrified him and he told his agent that he couldn’t go on…wouldn’t go on. And somehow, Henry’s behaviour was understood, because he knew that his dear friend would take care of it, and he did. The dialogue throughout the film is beautifully written, balancing between the highs and low of the narrative and striking the right notes. 20
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Patrick Stewart: Yorkshire born in Mirfield; he became a member of various local drama groups from the age of 12. He left school at the age 15 to work as a junior on a local paper; he quit when his editor told him he was spending too much time at the theatre and not enough working. Stewart spent a year as a furniture salesman, saving cash to attend drama school. He was accepted by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 1957. He made his professional debut in 1959 in the repertory theatre in Lincoln; he worked at the Manchester Library Theatre and a tour around the world with the Old Vic Company followed in the early 1960s. Stewart joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, to begin his 27-year association. Following a spell with the Royal National Theatre in the mid-1980s, he went to Los Angeles, California to star on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), which ran from 1987-1994, playing the role of Captain JeanLuc Picard. After the series ended, Stewart reprised his role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard for a string of successful Star Trek films: Star Trek: Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). Stewart continues to work on the stage and in various films. He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 Queen’s New Year’s Honours List for his services to drama. Trademark. Bald head, strong authoritative voice and dedicated Shakespearean bearing. Roles in classical plays and Shakespearean dramas. Frequently plays leaders or authority figures. Wry selfdeprecating sense of humour. Deadpan comic delivery. *Father of Sophie and Daniel Stewart. *Announced his engagement to former Star Trek Voyager (1995) producer Wendy Neuss, aged 39 (September 1997). *London Fringe Theatre Best Actor Award (1986) for the role of George in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” at the Young Vic. *During the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), he was so convinced that he was going to fired from the series that he did not unpack his bags for six weeks. *Best friends with his Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) castmate Brent Spiner, who was Stewart’s best man at the wedding to Star Trek Voyager (1995) producer Wendy Neuss. *He is a huge fan of Doctor Who (1963) and Red Dwarf (1988). Patrick Stewart’s performance in “Life with Music” bears all the characteristics of a great actor and chalks up another memorable film to his remarkable filmography. One of MbM’s favourite quotes of Patrick’s is on writing: “Writing is the strength of any project. If the script isn’t good, then you’ll be doing a cellophane job from day one, patching it up, trying to cover all the holes.” The script for “Life with Music” had no holes.
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Henry Field (Patrick Stewart) & Helen Morrison (Katie Holmes) in Life of Music
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AROUND THE SUN Directed by Oliver Krimpas Starring: Cara Theobald, Gethin Anthony. “The universe doesn’t care about me, so why should I care about it?” - Maggie
Touring a repossessed chateau, a film location scout falls for its flirtatious representative, who recounts the story of an influential book written there. But is there connection for real or just a projection of the book’s characters? A philosophical adventure that spins a tale that is likely to win over true romantics. It yearns to be loved and cherished and its lead characters are destined to fall in love, yet the story serendipitously side-tracks to unexpected happenings. Maggie’s family owns the chateau and at the beginning of the film, she is concerned that she has given Bernard the wrong entrance for the palatial estate. But Bernard is more worried that he is about to be a father and is not happy about it. He focuses his mind to the reason he is there: scouting for a location for a film shoot, but Maggie gives him a guided tour with details about its history as a feudal castle in the 16th century that became most well-known for serving as where the scientist Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle wrote his landmark book “Conversations on the Plurality of the World”. The title registers with Bernard, whose mood has shut him off to the world. Here is the major plus for the film, when director Oliver Krimpas and screenwriter Jonathan Kiefer turns the audience around and taking inspiration from Fontelle’s notions of parallel universes by revisiting Maggie and Bernard to embark on something original; taking Maggie and Bernard’s conversation in a new direction. No subject goes unturned. While Bernard goes on about the film shoot then starts taking pictures of Maggie rather than the location. Maggie describes the illustrious history of the house. Maggie and Bernard are a lovely couple to spend time with, as most audiences will discover.
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Cara Theobald: Her film resume consists mainly of TV films or appearing in TV series. Her major film break came when she got the role of Tracer in Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” Its storyline: When the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune and control his world. In “Squadron 303, Cara played the role of Victoria Brown. IT was the story of the highly regarded Fighter Squadron, in which served mainly airmen from Poland, in the history of aerial combat and heroic defence of England during World War 2.
Cara is currently playing the role of Alice Durand in the TV series “Absentia”. Gethin Anthony: Attended Tiffin School in Kingston-upon-Thames, where he was head boy and later returned to acting workshops. Gethin’s major break in 2014 when he got the starring role in “Copenhagen” Narrative: When the girl of your dreams is half your age, it is time to grow up. In pre-production, “Knuckledust” gives Gethin a challenging role as Jeremiah. The film is about a special police task force who kick open the doors of elite fight den called Club Knuckledust. They find seven levels of hell, filled with dead bodies of countless fighters.
Oliver Krimpas Director. With “Around the Sun” he makes his directional feature debut.
“Around the Sun” will be available on digital - August 4th, including iTunes and Amazon.
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VENICE FILM FESTIVAL September 2
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IN COMPETITION “In Between Dying” Directed by Hilal Baydarov “La Sorelle Macaluso” Directed by Emma Dante “The World to Come” Directed Mona Fastvold “Nuevo Orden” Directed by Michel Franco “LOVERS” Directed by Nicole Garcia “Laila in Haifa” Directed by Amos Gitai “Dear Comrades” Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky “Wife of a Spy” Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa “Sun Children” Directed by Majid Majidi “Pieces of a Woman” Directed by Kornel Mundruczo “Miss Marx” Directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli “Padrenostro” Directed by Claudio Noce “Never Gonna Snow Again” Directed by Malgorzata Szumowska & Michel Englert “The Disciple” Directed by Chaitanya Tamhane “And Tomorrow The Entire World” Directed by Julia Von Heinz “Nomadland” Directed by Chloe Zhao 28
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OUT OF COMPETITION FICTION “LACCI” Directed by Danielle Luchetti (OPENING FILM) “Lasciami Andare” Directed by Stefano Mordini (CLOSING FILM) “Mandibules” Directed by Quentin Dupieux “Love After Love” Directed by Ann Hui “Assandira” Directed by Salvatore Mereu “The Duke” Directed by Roger Mitchell “Night in Paradise” Directed by Park Soon-Jung “Mosquito State” Directed by Filip Jan Rymsza
OUT OF COMPETITION - NON-FICTION “Sportin’ Life” Directed by Abel Ferrara “Crazy, Not Insane” Directed by Alex Gibney “Greta” Directed by Nathan Grossman “Salvatore – Shoemaker of Dreams” Directed by Luca Guadagnino “Final Account” Directed by Luke Holland “La Verita Su La Dolce Vita” Directed by Giuseppe Pedersoli “Molecole” Directed by Daniele Segre “Narciso Em Ferias” Directed by Renato Terra & Ricardo Calil www.moviesbymills.com
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“Paolo Conte, Via Con Me” Directed by Giorgio Verdelli “Hopper/Welles” Directed by Orson Welles “City Hall” Directed by Frederick Wiseman
OUT OF COMPETITION – Special Screenings “30 Monedas – Episode 1” Directed by Alex De La Iglesia “Princesse Europe” Directed by Camille Lotteau “Omelia Contadina” Directed by Alice Rohrwacher.Jr
HORIZONS “Apples” (Opening Film) Directed by Christos Nikou “La Troisienne Guerre” Directed by Giovanni Aloi “Milestone” Directed by Ivan Ayr “The Wasteland” Directed by Ahmad Bahrami “The Man Who Sold His Skin” Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania “I Predatori” Directed by Pietro Castellitto “Mainstream” Directed by Gia Coppola “Genus Pan” Directed by Lav Diaz “Zanka Contact” Directed by Ismael El Iraki “Guerra e Pace” Directed by Martina Parenti & Massimo D’Anolfi
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