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The Odd Couple; Manakamana One Sheet Draws Attention to Charm of Chair Lift Pairings

Published on March 20, 2014

High above a jungle in Nepal, pilgrims make an ancient journey by cable car to worship Manakamana.

Among the treasured items presented at last year’s TIFF (Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez’s debut also surfaced at Locarno and the gondola sprinkled Telluride), Manakamana is positioning itself for an April 18th release via the The Cinema Guild folks. Dissolve got their ice-cream sticky hands on the poster one sheet which feature one among the many “pairings”. We’ll have tons of coverage including our interview with the directing tandem.

Related Topics:MANAKAMANA, Pacho Velez, Stephanie Spray, The Cinema Guild

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).