Editor’s Note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. Bleecker Street will open “One Life” in select theaters March 15, 2024.
Like OBEs, middlebrow British prestige biopics symbolize a desire to raise national morale by bestowing laurels upon an extraordinary individual. These subjects require no special case-making, for their efforts speak for themselves. The result tends to be patronizingly risk-averse, as story dots are joined with the goal of spoon-feeding a historic achievement to the masses. An inspirational message becomes a claim to contemporary relevance while a popular actor leads the charge towards awards recognition.
What sets Anthony Hopkins as Sir Nicholas Winton aside from Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game” and Eddie Redmayne as Steven Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” is that while these two men are known for their scientific inventions, Winton acted from an instinctive desire to do something humane.
Like OBEs, middlebrow British prestige biopics symbolize a desire to raise national morale by bestowing laurels upon an extraordinary individual. These subjects require no special case-making, for their efforts speak for themselves. The result tends to be patronizingly risk-averse, as story dots are joined with the goal of spoon-feeding a historic achievement to the masses. An inspirational message becomes a claim to contemporary relevance while a popular actor leads the charge towards awards recognition.
What sets Anthony Hopkins as Sir Nicholas Winton aside from Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game” and Eddie Redmayne as Steven Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” is that while these two men are known for their scientific inventions, Winton acted from an instinctive desire to do something humane.
- 9/9/2023
- by Sophie Monks Kaufman
- Indiewire
The 27th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set to commence from July 20 through August 9, 2023, and this year’s Frontières Market lineup has been announced.
The genre-themed line up has been revealed by Variety this afternoon, and it includes films about everything from Krampus to pregnancy, deadly novels, and a blood transfusion app.
Here’s the full Fantasia 2023 Frontières Market lineup…
Official Selection: Market Projects
“Alice”
The Netherlands
Director: Jan Verdijk
Genre: Psychological Horror
Vincent van der Valk stars in this horror, now in pre-production, about parents who, faced with their unborn daughter’s dire complications, turn to a mysterious midwife. What begins as harmless alternative therapies soon descends into life-threatening rituals. “It delves into the profound desires and fears of every aspiring parent,” says producer Daniel Dow of Dpplr. “It is a deeply personal narrative for the filmmakers, inspired by their own challenging journeys towards parenthood. The...
The genre-themed line up has been revealed by Variety this afternoon, and it includes films about everything from Krampus to pregnancy, deadly novels, and a blood transfusion app.
Here’s the full Fantasia 2023 Frontières Market lineup…
Official Selection: Market Projects
“Alice”
The Netherlands
Director: Jan Verdijk
Genre: Psychological Horror
Vincent van der Valk stars in this horror, now in pre-production, about parents who, faced with their unborn daughter’s dire complications, turn to a mysterious midwife. What begins as harmless alternative therapies soon descends into life-threatening rituals. “It delves into the profound desires and fears of every aspiring parent,” says producer Daniel Dow of Dpplr. “It is a deeply personal narrative for the filmmakers, inspired by their own challenging journeys towards parenthood. The...
- 7/17/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
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