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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #47. Juan Solanas’ Upside Down

I’ll reiterate what I mentioned same time last year (#53 in 2011) : filmmaking is in his blood, his debut film was a Cannes invite, the short film (The Man Without a Head) I have seen of his is stellar and while I have an aversion to sci-fi/time travel related romances, if the chemistry between Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess works, this might break out of the so-called “mold” that I dislike.

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#47. Upside Down

Director: Juan Solanas
Writer(s): Santiago Amigorena and Solanas

Producers: Claude Léger, Dimitri Rassam, Aton Soumache, Jonathan Vanger and Alexis Vonarb
Distributor: Rights Available

The Gist: Adam (Sturgess) is a seemingly ordinary guy in a very extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory of a girl he met once upon a time from another world, an inverted affluent world with its own gravity, directly above but beyond reach… a girl named Eve (Dunst)...(more)

Cast: Jim Sturgess toplines supported by Kirsten Dunst.

List Worthy Reasons…: I’ll reiterate what I mentioned same time last year (#53 in 2011) : filmmaking is in his blood, his debut film was a Cannes invite, the short film (The Man Without a Head) I have seen of his is stellar and while I have an aversion to sci-fi/time travel related romances, if the chemistry between Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess works, this might break out of the so-called “mold” that I dislike.

Release Date/Status?: With test screenings out of the way, we think that there might be a return trip to Cannes for Dunst. What section of the festival? Good question. With a price tag of north of 60 million and with several territories up for grabs, a North American release will depend on size and scope of the film and this could possibly go to a major studio who’ll want a world release date.

 
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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).

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