Sth about the cinema. I picked the most exciting films coming up in the new year.
A Bigger Splash
A Bowie-ish rock goddess (Tilda Swinton) and her devoted boyfriend
(Matthias Schoenaerts) are on holiday when two uninvited guests turn up
at their Italian villa: the rock star’s party-animal ex (Ralph Fiennes)
and his sulky, seductive daughter (Dakota Johnson). Depending on how you
look at it, the holiday is either well and truly over, or just getting
underway. Inspired by Jacques Deray’s La Piscine (1969), Luca
Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash is an erotic drama which becomes an edgy
thriller, but it’s always scenic, sun-baked, and hilarious: Fiennes’s
wild dance moves are worth the ticket price.
Hail, Caesar!
Ethan and Joel Coen’s period comedy could well be 2016’s most sumptuous
treat, an ice cream sundae of a film comprising the Coens’ favourite
ingredients: a kidnapping (The Big Lebowski), the Golden Age of
Hollywood (Barton Fink) and George Clooney being a buffoon (O Brother
Where Art Thou?). Josh Brolin stars as a studio executive who steps in
when Clooney’s matinee idol is spirited away from the set of an ancient
Roman epic. The lip-smacking cast includes Scarlett Johansson as an
Esther Williams-alike bathing beauty, Channing Tatum doing some Gene
Kelly moves, and the stars of A Bigger Splash, Ralph Fiennes and Tilda
Swinton.
The Witch
The Witch is 2016’s answer to It Follows: an independent horror film
which had festival audiences raving about its cleverness and style as
well as its nerve-jangling scariness. The winner of the Best First
Feature Award at October’s London Film Festival, Robert Eggers’
directorial debut tells the relentlessly creepy tale of a Puritan family
which is exiled from a New England settlement in the 1630s. Forced to
build a homestead at the edge of an isolated forest, the family seems to
be beset by black magic, but the parents’ own religious zeal is just as
menacing. Eggers worked as a production designer before becoming a
writer-director and, as outlandish as The Witch is, it looks as
authentic as any big-budget period drama.
Julieta
Pedro Almodóvar’s last film was 2013’s toe-curlingly unfunny I’m So
Excited, so it’s a relief to report that his new one – his twentieth –
marks his return to ‘the cinema of women’. With any luck, we can expect a
bruising, emotionally charged comedy-drama in the vein of Volver and
All About My Mother. Almodóvar told the Financial Times that his
original title was Silencio, because “that’s the principal element that
drives the worst things that happen to the main female protagonist”, but
he renamed it to avoid confusion with Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming
Silence. Emma Suárez and Adriana Ugarte play older and younger
incarnations of the same heroine.
High-Rise
Ben Wheatley’s surreal black comedy opens with a shot of Tom Hiddleston
on his tower-block balcony, barbecuing a dog, and proceedings get more
chaotic and disturbing from there. Adapted from JG Ballard’s 1975
satirical novel, High-Rise is set in a forbidding skyscraper which
houses the chain-smoking poor on the lower storeys, the decadent rich on
the upper ones, and the building’s lordly architect (Jeremy Irons) in
the penthouse. Also featuring Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth
Moss, it’s an unusually starry and expensive enterprise for Wheatley,
who shot his first films (Down Terrace, Kill List) on a shoestring, but
he’s still as anarchic as ever.
Don't forget to watch them!
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