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It’s been almost 15 years since Reznor — the mastermind behind industrial music pioneers and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Nine Inch Nails — and his bandmate and longtime creative partner Atticus Ross composed their first film score, for David Fincher’s The Social Network, which won them their first Academy Award.
The opening film this year [The Tale of Daye’s Family by Egyptian filmmaker Karim Shenawi] is a co-production between Egypt and Saudi.
Throughout, “Waterdrop” marries a straightforward naturalism with more elliptical stylistic flourishes — in dialogue, as when we’re treated to a myth about Lake Ohrid during a business meeting, as well as in imagery, as when off-camera conversations score shots from above of fish being deboned on the plate during a luncheon.
“Agnieszka is a singular visionary whose work — be it about vampire mermaids, silent twins or a tech-ruled society — is both visually astounding and thematically prophetic, and we can’t wait to share her latest with the world,” Kiska Higgs, president of production and acquisitions at Focus, said in a statement.
Sen’s life as a cutthroat advertising executive with a withering mindset towards humanity gets upended by his diagnosis of laryngeal cancer and the flurry of surgeries that he would have to conduct on his body as pieces of his organs are cut away to stop the malignancy.
At the start of Turkish auteur Zeki Demirkubuz’s long-awaited and frustratingly miscalculated “Life” — the filmmaker’s first movie in seven years, now serving as Turkey’s international feature submission to the Academy Awards —a young woman named Hicran flees the claws of an impending arranged marriage and goes into hiding.
Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen and Ben Stiller are among the returning faces from the first movie, while new additions to the cast include Benny Safdie, Bad Bunny, Margaret Qualley and Scott Mescudi, along with cameos from Travis Kelce and golfer John Daly.
Co-written and starring Ilana Glazer as Lucy – an ambitious PR agency employee who is finding it difficult to get pregnant, the film follows her pregnancy journey post consulting and getting treatment from fertility expert Dr. Hindle (a super-creepy Pierce Brosnan).
Chu had previously revealed the news on his IG Stories in a “special magical announcement” with a photo taken in the hospital showing two bracelets reading “defy gravity,” a nod to one of Wicked’s songs.
They wind up in Germany in a medieval “Star Wars” cantina trying to save themselves from Santa’s estranged half-brother, the giant goat-man troll Krampus (Kristofer Hivju), at which point you’re either onboard or (in my case) starting to check your watch.
Coralie Fargeat, known for her fierce debut in Revenge (2018), returns to the screen with The Substance, a chilling, satirical exploration of body horror and society’s obsession with youth and beauty.
Vasanth and Aaranya try to leave but find themselves trapped in an endless spatial loop in a dark patch between houses, which echoes the experiences of 1964 when Manohar faced similar disturbances.