Paul Mescal is hitting the red carpet at the premiere of his new movie of at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival.
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A24 acquired North American rights to Charlotte Wells’ feature debut breakout Aftersun following its bow in Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival last May. Today, we have the first trailer for the award-winning drama — check it out above. A24 releases in North America on October 21.
Starring Frankie Corio and Paul Mescal, the story follows Sophie who reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father 20 years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.
In Deadline’s review, Anna Smith called it “a terrific two-hander… partly a comedy-drama about a package holiday, but also a meditation on memories of a father with mental health problems.”
Aftersun won the French Touch Prize of the Jury at Cannes’ Critics’ Week, going on to the Grand Prize and Critics’ Prize at Deauville and was recently in official selection at Edinburgh, Telluride and Toronto. It next heads to the New York and London Film Festivals.
Wells, a New York-based Scottish filmmaker, wrote and directs. Earlier this month, she told Deadline’s Toronto Studio that although the story is not autobiographical, she was inspired by her relationship with her own father. “In the early stages,” she said, “it was a bit more of a conventionally structured piece about these two people who go on holiday in this very confined, bizarre area, and then find reason to leave it and kind of explore the place that they are in. But over the course of writing it, it just became a bit more personal. Like, it began to be more informed by specific memories, not just from a holiday, but from throughout childhood. And I allowed that to form the outline of the very first
Paul Mescal is hitting the red carpet at the premiere of his new movie of at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival.
Two filmmakers renowned for recent works of autofiction, Mia Hansen-Løve and Charlotte Wells, are both riveted by the process of blending details from their lives together with invented artistic elements. At the 60th New York Film Festival last Saturday, the filmmakers convened inside Lincoln Center’s Francesca Beale Theater for an hour-long conversation about their NYFF Main Slate selections.
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View this post on Instagram They are perhaps one of the cutest couples to have emerged from lockdown, and it seems that Phoebe Bridgers and Paul Mescal might have just taken their relationship to the next level. That's if a cryptic tweet by their mate, The 1975's Matty Healy is to be believed.
View this post on Instagram They are perhaps one of the cutest couples to have emerged from lockdown, and it seems that Phoebe Bridgers and Paul Mescal might have just taken their relationship to the next level. That's if a cryptic tweet by their mate, The 1975's Matt Healy is to be believed.
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SPECTOR, a four-part docuseries diving into the story behind late music producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector.First announced back in August, the four-part series will predominantly focus on Spector’s involvement in the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, of which he was convicted in 2009. It’ll feature archival footage of Spector himself – a voiceover in the trailer sees him argue that he “had nothing to do with [Clarkson’s] death” – as well as newly recorded interviews with figures close to both him and Clarkson.“He did not like to be alone – he had abandonment issues,” one voice in the trailer said of Spector’s personality, while another claimed that “Phil Spector enjoyed bringing people to his home and locking them inside”.An official synopsis for SPECTOR – directed by Sheena M.
“Normal People” heartthrob Paul Mescal has quickly parlayed his breakout popularity on TV into a burgeoning film career. After appearing in last year’s “The Lost Daughter” from first-time director Maggie Gyllenhall, he’s now the star of another feature debut from a female filmmaker on the rise.
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Ciara has teased a potential Summer Walker feature on her new single ‘Better Thangs’.This weekend (September 18), Ciara shared an image to social media from the set of a music video, featuring two blurry figures in the background. “I’m so excited for my feature on #BetterThangs.
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