The buzz titles
Screen profiles the films heading for the 65th Locarno Film Festival in the International Competition and Piazza Grande sections
Piazza Grande World premiere
A FEW HOURS OF SPRING Fr Dir Stéphane Brizé Vincent Lindon stars as a man, released from prison, who moves in with his terminally ill mother. The actor also starred in Brizé’s Mademoiselle Chambon in 2009. Contact Rezo Films
www.rezofilms.com
BACHELORETTE US Dir Leslye Headland Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan and Isla Fisher star as a bridal party in Headland’s feature debut, which is produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay and premiered at Sundance this year. Contact Elle Driver
www.elledriver.fr
THE BLACK BALLOON US Dirs Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie The Safdie brothers’ 21-minute film about a man who loses a balloon in New York City won a short film-making award at Sundance this year. Their previous film, Daddy Longlegs, premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2009. Contact Red Bucket Films
www.redbucketfilms.com
BONJOUR TRISTESSE US Dir Otto Preminger Preminger is the subject of a retrospective at the festival, which will screen his entire body of work including this 1958 French Riviera-set film based on the novel by Francoise Sagan, starring Jean Seberg and David Niven. Contact The Film Foundation
www.film-foundation.org
CAMILLE REWINDS Fr Dir Noémie Lvovsky Lvovsky’s French comedy about a woman given the chance to start over was the closing film of Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, where it picked up the Prix SACD. Lvovsky also stars in the film. Contact Gaumont
www.gaumont.fr
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World premiere MORE THAN HONEY Switz-Ger-Aust Dir Markus Imhoof Swiss director Imhoof’s $2.5m (€2m) documentary More Than Honey centres around the significance of bees to man’s own survival. Imhoof’s The Boat Is Full was nominated for a foreign- language Oscar in 1982. Contact Films Boutique
www.filmsboutique.com
Lullaby Ride
stolen, along with their baby. Schaub’s Thirty Years played at Locarno in 1990. Contact T&C Edition AG
tcfilm.ch
LORE Ger-Aus-UK Dir Cate Shortland
Australian director/co-writer Shortland’s first feature since her debut Somersault which screened at Cannes in 2004, German-language title Lore world
premiered in competition at the Sydney Film Festival.
Contact Memento Films International international.
memento-films.com
World premiere LULLABY RIDE Switz-Ger
Dir Christoph Schaub Alexandra Maria Lara and Sebastian
Blomberg star as parents whose car is (Right) Magic Mike
MAGIC MIKE US Dir Steven Soderbergh Soderbergh’s latest outing opened in the US on July 1 through Warner Bros, taking $73m in its first two weeks. Stars Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey as entrepreneurial strippers. Contact FilmNation
www.wearefilmnation.com
MOTORWAY HK Dir Soi Cheang
This slick car-chase movie is the second collaboration between Hong Kong-based film-maker Soi and Johnnie To — who is being honoured at the festival with a lifetime achievement award — following 2009’s Accident. Contact Media Asia Distribution
www.mediaasia.com
NO Chile-US-Mex Dir Pablo Larrain
No won the Art Cinema Award at Directors’
Fortnight in Cannes and was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics for the US. Gael Garcia Bernal stars as an advertising executive who launches a
campaign in 1988 to oust Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Contact Funny Balloons
www.funny-balloons.com
RUBY SPARKS US Dirs Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris Little Miss Sunshine directors Dayton and Faris return to Locarno with this romantic indie title starring Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Antonio Banderas and Annette Bening. Contact 20th Century Fox
SIGHTSEERS UK Dir Ben Wheatley UK horror director Wheatley’s follow up to his acclaimed second feature Kill List centres on a couple on a caravanning holiday which goes very wrong. The film screened in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, where it sold to IFC for the US. Contact Protagonist Pictures
www.protagonistpictures.com
World premiere — opening film THE SWEENEY UK Dir Nick Love A modern-day reinvention of cult UK television series The Sweeney sees Ray Winstone and Ben Drew playing hardened cops who chase criminals across London. Despite strong UK roots, the title has sold around the world including to eOne for the US. Contact Protagonist Pictures
www.protagonistpictures.com
www.screendaily.com
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