The Trump administration is reportedly in talks with Romania to lift travel restrictions for Andrew and Tristan Tate, the right-wing social media influencers whose human trafficking, sexual misconduct and money laundering case has become a rallying point among conservatives and who are unable to leave the country amid the legal battle.
The actor, who is coming off the Sundance premiere of grief drama The Thing With Feathers, is joining Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Blood on Snow, an indie adaptation of the Jo Nesbo crime thriller being directed by Cary Fukunaga.
In Episode 3, Jae-yoon, a skilled soldier stationed on a rooftop outpost, faces mounting pressure as he struggles to maintain control amid dwindling resources and growing unrest.
The startup studio’s second project is Ikatan Darah, another local-language action flick, this one directed by Sidharta Tata and starring Livi Ciananta as a former martial arts athlete who is forced to face off against a network of ruthless loan sharks after her younger brother accumulates online gambling debts, threatening their family’s safety.
That quality permeates the film right from the opening scene, when a blissful couple’s coital moans take over the dark screen, resolving to the pained face of Susan (a brilliant Michaela Watkins), confronted with the sight of an alarming pair of off-camera lovers: She walks in on her husband Alan (Sandy Jobin-Bevans) having an affair with his golf instructor Jacinta (Sorika Wolf).
Li and gifted French DP Matthias Delvaux (“Snow Leopard”) counterintuitively paint Yu’s anguish in tones of stark, sun-saturated white, whether on the tellingly under-decorated walls of her apartment or the neutral comfort of starched hospital sheets — presenting the world around her as a blank slate, empty but still open to reinvention.
Focused on a principled Christian woman in a remote northern village in 1930s Sweden, losing grip on her marriage and her social standing as her husband becomes an abusive cult guru, Blåhed’s script was inspired by the Korpela movement that spun off from a particularly pietistic branch of Lutheranism in the 1920s, eventually devolving into misogynistic hedonism — facts to which the film adheres with minimal luridness.
While Lamar did not discuss details of his upcoming set list, it was reported this week that he will be performing “Not Like Us.” The track, part of an ongoing feud between the rappers, questions Drake’s cultural identity and integrity while doubling down on allegations of pedophilia and sexual misconduct.
Whether it’s Prince wresting back control of his master recordings at the height of his popularity or Petty taking on his label for raising the price on his LP, and later funding his iconic album Damn the Torpedos himself and then refusing to release it, skin in the game earns a seat at the table.
In a career spanning more than half a century, Pacino has cultivated an enviable track record, working with greats like Francis Ford Coppola, Sidney Lumet, Martin Scorsese, and William Friedkin, to name a few of cinema’s wizards, and producing some of the most excellent performances ever put on screen.
Binoche has been a Cannes regular ever since, returning to the Croisette with features from some of international cinema’s most acclaimed auteurs, from Michael Haneke (Code Unknown, Caché), and David Cronenberg (Cosmopolis), Krzysztof Kieślowski (Three Colors: Red), Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria), Claire Denis (Let the Sunshine In), and Anh Hung Tran (The Taste of Things).
World premiering at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Sunday, it screens in the fest’s Harbour program, which wants to offer “a safe haven to the full range of contemporary cinema,” and reminds us that love is a battlefield.
