Chevalier
As Festival City Cinema showtime presents, Chevalier is so hot movie. Director Athina Rachel Tsangari’s previous feature, Attenberg, was a unique female coming-of-age story. In her latest, she shifts her focus to examine masculinity in the modern age. Set on a luxury yacht in the Aegean Sea, Chevalier follows six men whose fishing trip turns into a contest when a game is introduced to determine who is “the best at everything” or the “Chevalier.” Early reviews call it “sublimely ridiculous” and an “intriguing and thoroughly original character study.”
Dheepan
It is showing in Taiwan Cinema now. The surprise winner of the Palme d’Or at last year's Cannes Film Festival, the latest from director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust and Bone) follows a Tamil soldier (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) who flees the civil war in Sri Lanka for France. Forming a makeshift family with two other refugees, Dheepan attempts to establish a peaceful new life only to find himself drawn into violence on the streets of Paris. Both a realistic social drama and an action thriller, Dheepan has earned strong early reviews.
The Lobster
Finally being released by A24 after its original distributor, Alchemy, ran into financial trouble, this latest oddball from Dogtooth and Alps director Yorgos Lanthimos’ serves as his English-language debut and was also his first film to play in competition at Cannes. It is showing in Galaxy Macau Cinema now.
Like his previous features, The Lobster mines a surreal premise to comment on modern society. It’s the near future, and Colin Farrell’s David, a divorcee, must check into a hotel where he has 45 days to find a mate. If he fails, he will be turned into the animal of his choice (the lobster of the title). Rachel Weisz plays a potential mate who has escaped the hotel and lives in the forest amongst the Loners, and John C. Reilly, Ben Whishaw, and Lanthimos regular Angeliki Papoulia are other singles looking for love.
Love and Friendship
A fine pairing of material with director, this adaptation of Jane Austen’s early novella Lady Susan reunites director Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Damsels in Distress) with his The Last Days of Disco stars Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny. Beckinsale plays Lady Susan Vernon, a widow scheming to find suitors for herself and her daughter, Frederica (Morfydd Clark). Sevigny plays an American who is her best (and maybe only) friend, but, according to reviews from the film's premiere at Sundance, it’s Beckinsale’s show all the way despite strong supporting performances by Stephen Fry as Sevigny’s husband and Tom Bennet as a rich but dim-witted potential husband. In Festival City Mall schedule, it is hottest film with full-house record.
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