Viennale bookended by Le Havre and The Ides of March
As every year since its creation in 1960 by a group of critics, Austria’s non-competitive major international festival, named Viennale two years later, will once again bring the capital to life. Running from October 20-November 2, the event will give over 95,000 viewers the chance to discover more than 320 features, documentaries and shorts, starting with this evening’s opening film, the widely-acclaimed Cannes prize-winner Le Havre [+see also:
film review
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interview: Aki Kaurismäki
film profile] [pictured], by Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki, whose big brother Mika is also in the line-up with his much-awaited documentary Mama Africa [+see also:
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film profile] (the first screening has already sold out).
Among the narrative features in the selection are other titles from the Cannes competition: Bertrand Bonello’s House of Tolerance [+see also:
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interview: Adèle Haenel
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interview: Michel Hazanavicius
film profile], Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope [+see also:
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interview: Nanni Moretti
film profile], Lars von Trier’s Melancholia [+see also:
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interview: Lars von Trier
film profile] and the Dardenne brothers’ The Kid With a Bike [+see also:
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interview: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
film profile].
Viennese cinema-goers will also get the chance to discover Still Life by fellow Austrian Sebastian Meise, Adrian Sitaru’s Romanian film Best Intentions [+see also:
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film profile], Volcano [+see also:
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film profile] by Iceland’s Rúnar Rúnarsson, Alessandro Comodin’s Summer of Giacomo [+see also:
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film profile], Alps [+see also:
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film profile] by Greece’s Yorgos Lanthimos, Ulrich Köhler’s Berlinale prize-winner Sleeping Sickness [+see also:
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interview: Ulrich Kohler
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film profile] and The Names of Christ by Catalan helmer Albert Serra.
French cinema is well represented: the Viennale will screen, among others, Almayer’s Folly [+see also:
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film profile], the latest film by Chantal Akerman, who is the subject of a vast retrospective of 40 films; Mathieu Demy’s Americano [+see also:
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film profile]; Valérie Donzelli’s Declaration of War [+see also:
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film profile]; Robert Guédiguian’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro [+see also:
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interview: Robert Guédiguian
interview: Robert Guédiguian
film profile]; and Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy [+see also:
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interview: Céline Sciamma
film profile].
Among the homages, there is a 12-film line-up dedicated to London-based producer Jeremy Thomas. Other highlights of this 49th edition of the Viennale include Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb’s Iranian documentary This Is Not a Film, and David Cronenberg’s latest film, the European co-production A Dangerous Method [+see also:
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interview: The team of A Dangerous Met…
film profile], starring Viggo Mortensen as Freud, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Vincent Cassel. The festival is also hosting a wide range of parallel events, including exhibitions, debates, and concerts. It will close with George Clooney’s The Ides of March.
(Translated from French)
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