5 movies we want to watch at the Mill Valley Film Festival
As usual, October in Marin is all about movies! The renowned Festival will open October 8, 2015 for 10 days of cinema celebration.
Since its debuts, the Mill Valley Film Festival asserted itself as a noncompetitive environment where filmmakers and viewers can gather to celebrate and encourage the best independent movies and international features.
This 38th edition of the Mill Valley Film Festival is presented by the California Film Institute, will take place in different locations as Corte Madera, San Rafael, Larkspur and... naturally Mill Valley, is expecting over 200 filmmakers and is offering the opportunity to watch movies whose US distribution is not yet guaranted and finally is introducing and revealing new and potentially unusual productions to the audience of the Bay "and beyond".
Here are 5 movies you should want to watch...
DHEEPAN
The latest movie by Jacques Audiard, that received the Palme d'Or at Cannes earlier this year.
The story briefly...
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
MUSTANG
Event at the latest Festival de Cannes, the movie just got selected to represent France at the upcoming Oscar ceremony.
The story briefly...
Early summer. In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters are walking home from school, playing innocently with some boys. The immorality of their play sets off a scandal that has unexpected consequences. The family home is progressively transformed into a prison; instruction in homemaking replaces school and marriages start being arranged. The five sisters who share a common passion for freedom, find ways of getting around the constraints imposed on them.
ELLE L'ADORE (NUMBER ONE FAN)
Great duo of French comedians for this comedy, first movie by Jeanne Herry.
The story briefly...
Muriel Bayen, a divorced beautician and mother of two, loves to tell stories. She is a huge fan of this singer Vincent Lacroix, in fact she is a dedicated fan. One day Vincent knocks on her door and asks for her help.
CHANTE TON BAC D'ABORD
(WE DID IT IN A SONG)
French documentary, the Ken Loach way?
The story briefly...
The coastal town of Boulogne-sur-Mer in Northern France serves as the backdrop for this refreshingly unique hybrid documentary-musical following the stories of five working-class kids, told and sung in their own words.
LE FILS DE SAUL (SON OF SAUL)
Drama by the Hungarian director, László Nemes. The movie received the Grand Prix earlier this year at the Cannes Festival.
Oppressing, chocking, overwhelming.
The story...
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
We just mentioned 5 of the movies. But we should also have told about James Franco in Yosemite, Charlotte Rampling in 45 years, Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Jane Fonda in Youth, Marthe Keller in Amnesia, Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl as the opening screening... So many movies to watch!
Mill Valley Film Festival
October 8 - 18, 2015
Everything you should know about the Festival.
