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| The Guardian - Culture: Film | | | | 'We won't do anything like this again': Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman on their Afrofuturist musical | | by Catherine Bray Nov 2, 2022 | | The married directing duo fought tooth and nail to bring their dazzling film Neptune Frost to the screen. They explain why all the hardship was worth it How best to describe the multi-hyphenate talents that are Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman? Between them, the married pair have worked as actors, musicians, visual artists, poets – and are now co-directors of the Afrofuturist fantasia Neptune Frost. In a total dereliction of journalistic duty, I ask them to solve this riddle for me. How do you normally describe yourselves? “Well, I recently bumped into a guy I know from a store in LA, walking in Paris,” says Williams. “And he said: ‘What are you doing here? Are you a designer?’ And I said: ‘I’m a poet.’” Continue reading... | | | | | Living review – Bill Nighy tackles life and death in exquisitely sad drama | | by Peter Bradshaw Nov 2, 2022 | | A gentle and poignant Kazuo Ishiguro-scripted remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1953 film Ikiru about a man dealing with a terminal diagnosis The terrible conversation in the hospital consulting room – everyone’s final rite of passage – is the starting point for this deeply felt, beautifully acted movie from screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro and director Oliver Hermanus: a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1953 film Ikiru, or To Live. A buttoned-up civil servant works joylessly in the town planning department; he is a lonely widower estranged from his grasping son and daughter-in-law. In the original, he was Mr Watanabe, played by Takashi Shimura. Now he is Mr Williams, played by Bill Nighy. Continue reading... | | | | | James Cameron releases extended trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water | | by Guardian film Nov 2, 2022 | | New footage from the sequel to the highest-grossing movie of all time has been released on YouTube James Cameron has released new footage of his forthcoming Avatar sequel The Way of Water, in the form of a two-and-a-half minute trailer released online on Wednesday. Avatar: The Way of Water is the follow-up to Cameron’s 2009 sci-fi blockbuster which remains the highest-grossing film of all time. It stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Sigourney Weaver, and is set more than a decade later than Avatar. According to the official synopsis, it “tells the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure”. Avatar: The Way of Water is out on the 16 December in the UK and US. Continue reading... | | | | | The Wonder review – Florence Pugh's passionate reckoning with a horrific miracle | | by Peter Bradshaw Nov 2, 2022 | | Pugh drives forward Sebastián Lelio’s haunting adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s story of divine possession Sebastián Lelio’s new film is an arrestingly strange, distinctively literary tale of innocence, horror and imperial guilt adapted from the novel by Emma Donoghue: the anti-miracle of a young girl’s mysterious possession by divine grace. You could put this in a double-bill with The Exorcist. Florence Pugh brings a pugnacious and forthright intensity to the role of Lib, an English nurse who in 1862 comes to a village in rural Ireland, commissioned by a somewhat pompous male committee of priests and worthies to be an expert witness in examining what appears to be a miracle unfolding under their eyes. A young girl, Anna, has not eaten any food for four months and yet appears entirely healthy. Her stricken, awestruck parents Rosaleen (Elaine Cassidy) and Malachy (Coalán Byrne) receive a continuous stream of true believers in their cottage, who are allowed upstairs into her bedroom to speak with the sweet-natured, pious child. Anna is tremendously played by Elaine Cassidy’s daughter, newcomer Kíla Lord Cassidy. The parents have now agreed that Lib will keep watch over Anna to ensure that she is not hiding food, alternating every eight hours with a nun with the same task so that their mission is covered by both medicine and faith. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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