Attenberg by Athina Rachel Tsangari, Venice Film Festival 2010
Attenberg is the latest project from Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari, and one of the movies selected In Competition at 67th Venice Film Festival.
Attenberg
“I made a film about four people who happen to be in the same place at the same time. Three people become four, then two. Three, of course, being the only perfect number in a relationship.”
That’s what Tsangari had to say about her project that goes like this:
“…born and raised in an abandoned mill town, uniformly built around a single high-rise apartment building, Marina has fallen in love with a failed architectural experiment and forgotten all about the people who were supposed to live in it.
Third Megamind Trailer
DreamWorks Animation has revealed the third full trailer for the upcoming 3D supervillain animated film Megamind, featuring the voices of Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey and Jonah Hill.
Megamind (Will Ferrell) is the most brilliant super–villain the world has ever known… and the least successful. Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way – Each attempt, a colossal failure thanks to the caped superhero known as “Metro Man,” until the day Megamind actually defeats him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, the fate of Metro City is threatened when a new villain arrives and chaos runs rampant, leaving everyone to wonder: Can the world’s biggest “mind” actually be the one to save the day?
La Pecora Nera by Ascanio Celestini, Venice Film Festival 2010
La pecora nera or if you prefer, The Black Sheep is the feature debut from Ascanio Celestini, which is In Competition for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
Yes, we said it’s a comedy, but they also describe it as an “inventive, funny and tragic” movie. Check out the La pecora nera synopsis and see why…
“The psychiatric hospital is an apartment block of saints. The poor crazy inmates tucked into their Chinese sheets – industrially manufactured shrouds – are saints, the nun lit up like an ex-voto by her bedside lamp is a saint.
And the doctor is the saintliest of all, he is the head of the saints, he is Jesus Christ.”
Happy Few by Antony Cordier, Venice Film Festival 2010
Happy Few, the second feature by French director Antony Cordier, is another movie that In Competition for The Golden Lion at this year’s Venice International Film Festival.
The movie explores the motivating forces behind an adult love affair in which two couples meet and fall in love, lose sight of each other in the confusion and end up pulling through.
Happy Few is a movie that poses the old chestnut about whether or not it’s possible to love two people at once.
It follows “…two couples who meet, hit it off and soon they swap partners in an ongoing spouse-sharing arrangement – without establishing any ground rules.
New Monsters Trailer
Magnet Releasing has debuted the second full length trailer for Monsters, science fiction drama starring Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able.
Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and grow. In an effort to stem the destruction that resulted, half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain the massive creatures… Our story begins when a jaded US journalist (McNairy) begrudgingly agrees to find his boss’ daughter, a shaken American tourist (Able) and escort her through the infected zone to the safety of the US border.
Silent Souls by Aleksei Fedorchenko, Venice Film Festival 2010
Ovsyanki or Silent Souls, another title In Competition for Golden Lion statue at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
This time, we’re here to present you a movie that comes from a Russian director Aleksei Fedorchenko that is already being described as “melancholy drama relates the journey of a man and his companion, who travel to a river with the remains of his companion’s late wife.”
Here’s the Silent Souls synopsis: “After a man’s young wife dies suddenly (the cause is never disclosed) he enlists the help of a colleague in disposing of the body in accordance with the local custom.
The characters here are Meryar, descendants of a 400-year-old Finnish tribe once native to that part of western Russia, but now all but forgotten. They have different and non-traditional names for places and people, but most strikingly different are their rituals to do with marriage and death and the expression of grief.”
Venus Noire by Abdel Kechiche, Venice Film Festival 2010
As you already guess, we’re here to continue with the movies that In Competition for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
Venus Noire, or if you prefer Black Venus is an upcoming French drama directed by Abdel Kechiche, and we’re here to introduce you to the movie based on the life of Sarah Baartman, a Khoikhoi girl who in the early 19th century was exhibited in Europe under the name “Hottentot Venus.”
Check out the Venus Noire synopsis: “Paris, 1817: inside the Royal Academy of Medicine. “I have never seen a human head more similar to that of an ape’s.”
Noomi Rapace and Jeremy Renner in Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
The Hurt Locker star and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo star in one movie? Yes, please!
And, this news comes from Jeremy Renner, who recently gave an interview at the Venice Film Festival and revealed that he and Noomi Rapace will be starring in Tommy Wirkola’s upcoming project Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters!
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters takes place 15 years after the siblings’ incident involving the gingerbread house. The siblings have evolved into bounty hunters who hunt witches.
Of course, you can already guess that Renner is up for the part of Hansel while Rapace is set to star as Gretel, but here’s what Renner had to say about the upcoming project:
“I liked Dead Snow, and I like seeing that Scandinavian directors have a combination of horror and humor.
First Deathly Hallows: Part I TV Spot
The first TV spot for for the next chapter of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, aired during the season premiere of The Vampire Diaries on The CW.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Synopsis: Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to track down and destroy the secret to Voldemort’s immortality and destruction — the Horcruxes. On their own, without the guidance of their professors or the protection of Professor Dumbledore, the three friends must now rely on one another more than ever. But there are Dark Forces in their midst that threaten to tear them apart. Meanwhile, the wizarding world has become a dangerous place for all enemies of the Dark Lord. The long-feared war has begun and Voldemort’s Death Eaters seize control of the Ministry of Magic and even Hogwarts, terrorizing and arresting anyone who might oppose them. But the one prize they still seek is the one most valuable to Voldemort: Harry Potter.
