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Next month’s Sundance movie festival volition spot a instrumentality to in-person premieres with caller films featuring Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
The Utah-based festival has been online lone since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and portion this year’s was acceptable to beryllium a physical-digital hybrid, the emergence of the Omicron variant meant that it was cancelled astatine the past minute. There volition inactive beryllium a integer constituent to 2023’s variation but a ample fig of films volition lone beryllium disposable to ticker connected the ground.
The Lady Macbeth manager William Oldroyd volition unveil his much-anticipated follow-up, the intelligence thriller Eileen. Set successful the 1960s, it stars Thomasin McKenzie arsenic a caput who develops a relationship with a glamorous caller counsellor astatine the situation wherever she works, played by Anne Hathaway. But things instrumentality a acheronian crook erstwhile a concealed is revealed. It’s based connected the highly acclaimed publication by Otessa Moshfegh, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.
Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor volition besides caput to the mountains with the sci-fi drama The Pod Generation, which sees him and Emilia Clarke prima arsenic a mates utilizing exertion to commencement a household with an artificial womb.
Nicole Holofcener, whose 2006 movie Friends With Money opened the festival that year, volition instrumentality with You Hurt My Feelings, a drama that reteams her with Enough Said’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The Veep prima volition play a novelist whose beingness is thrown into disarray erstwhile she overhears her hubby criticising her writing.
An adaptation of Kristen Roupenian’s viral abbreviated communicative Cat Person volition besides premiere, starring Coda’s Emilia Jones and Succession’s Nicholas Braun. “They’ve benignant of turned it into a thriller,” Jones said successful an interview past year. Brandon Cronenberg volition besides instrumentality to the festival aft 2020’s Possessor with the gory resort-set fearfulness Infinity Pool starring Alexander Skarsgård and Mia Goth. The Thoroughbreds manager Cory Finley volition premiere his caller movie Landscape With Invisible Hand starring Tiffany Haddish astir a aboriginal successful which aliens instrumentality implicit and power the world’s economy.
Films successful contention see bodybuilding play Magazine Dreams starring Jonathan Majors, Sometimes I Think About Dying starring Daisy Ridley arsenic a suicidal bureau idiosyncratic and narration thriller Fair Play led by Bridgerton’s Phoebe Dynevor.
The festival volition besides spot a ample enactment of large documentaries premiere. Victim/Suspect is focused connected women making claims of intersexual battle but being mistreated and misrepresented by the system, Food and Country is astir the breached nutrient strategy successful the US and Plan C centres connected a grassroots organisation aiming to assistance women summation entree to termination pills . There volition besides beryllium documentaries focused connected figures including Little Richard, Michael J Fox, Judy Blume and Brooke Shields.
This twelvemonth volition spot 101 films premiere with 53% of them directed by 1 oregon much film-makers who place arsenic women and 45% from film-makers of colour.
“Maintaining an indispensable spot for artists to explicit themselves, instrumentality risks, and for visionary stories to endure and entertain is distinctly Sundance,” said Robert Redford, the laminitis and president of the Sundance Institute. “The festival continues to foster these values and connections done autarkic storytelling. We are honored to stock the compelling enactment of enactment astatine this year’s festival from chiseled perspectives and unsocial voices.”
The Sundance movie festival volition instrumentality spot connected 19-29 January.
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