Thursday, June 04, 2020

I Cannes See You

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When I posted the trailer for the Rainer Wener Fassbinder biopic Enfant Terrible yesterday I did so not immediately realizing that the reason we were getting a trailer with English subtitles for a movie that's only scheduled as of now for a release in Germany this fall was that the film was one of the titles that Cannes had been planning on screening -- yesterday they released a list of all the films they had planned on showing before the fest got canned due to COVID; you can see the entire list over here. It's Cannes so of course there's plenty o' awesome stuff, including Francis Lee's Ammonite (his follow-up to God's Own Country, a lesbian romance starring Kate Winslet and Saorsie Ronan -- see our previous posts here) as well as two films from Steve McQueen, among many many others. But there are two I specifically want to laser in on!
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The first is François Ozon's latest called Summer of 85, and which also got a teaser trailer this week to ride the Cannes announcement wave; watch that above and I triple Timmy dare you to not think he was inspired by Call Me By Your Name. An 80s-set coming-of-age gay-boy romance with New Wave music and headphones and pretty twinks aplenty? Indeed. We don't have a release date yet but oh we will be watching for one.
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The second movie is the latest from Far From the Madding Crowd director Thomas Vinterberg and it's called Another Round -- it stars Vinterberg regular Mads Mikkelsen as one of a group of middle-aged man-friends who make a "scientific" pact to be a certain amount of drunk every single day, under the impression that the human body and brain operates better with a higher alcohol content than it's naturally given.And naturally, shit gets out of hand. Again no word on a release date but I'd add this one to the To Watch heap if I was you since Vinterberg + Mikkelsen is always a keeper.


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