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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #112. Luca Guadagnino’s An Even Bigger Splash

Published on January 11, 2023

An Even Bigger Splash

Luca Guadagnino will gift us with the American romantic sports comedy Challengers this year and will be working on Queer and an Audrey Hepburn biopic shortly but before all this we’ll also be revisiting the tempestuous and sensuous Sicilian summer haze of his 2015 film. A Bigger Splash becomes An Even Bigger Splash this year due to an exercise that began at the Göteborg Film Festival. Guadagnino went back in the editing suite and we can expect a re-release of sorts with all the works and the hopes of some film fest circuit play. The original clocks in at 124 minutes.

Gist: While vacationing on a Sicilian island with her boyfriend (Matthias Schoenaerts), a rock star (Tilda Swinton) receives an unexpected visit from an old flame (Ralph Fiennes) and his seductive daughter (Dakota Johnson).

Release Date/Prediction: It would be fitting that this returns to the Lido for an out of competition screening.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).