Each year at the New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center culls together an incredible and diverse selection of cinema that guarantees passionate responses and heated debates. Last September, the Festival featured films that.even then.seemed destined for Oscar night acclaim, including Alexander Payne's The Descendants, Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist, and Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, as well as cinema so shocking it should come with safety belts, like Lars Von Trier's Melancholia, Steve McQueen's Shame and Pedro Almodovàr's The Skin I Live In. But amid all these titles that fought for focus there was one low-budget thriller by a lesser-known filmmaker that kept emerging into conversation. Based on a short story by Tom Bissell, The Loneliest Planet is writer-director Julia Loktev's follow-up to her critically heralded debut feature Day Night Day Night. Starring Gael García Bernal (The Science of Sleep...
- 7/5/2012
- cinemablend.com
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