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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #190. Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s Carnation

Published on January 5, 2023

Carnation

We’re beginning to think Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s Carnation is driftwood at sea as it wrapped up back in 2019. The Australian filmmaker with film splash showings at Sundance, Cannes and Venice might be still chiselling down his latest feature as we happened to notice it’s advertised at over two and a half hours. This filmed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with producers Abby Harri, John Baker, Kate Laurie, Chris Luscri, Freeman Trebilcock backing the project.

Gist: In the American South, two lovers forge an all-consuming love as their physical and spiritual worlds are pushed to the limits of time and space. Carnation is an impressionistic portrait of love and the ways in which we attempt to transcend our mortality.

Release Date/Prediction: We imagined this receiving an invite at Venice last year, but this could be gunning for something like a Locarno preem.

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).

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Annual Top Films Lists

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #190. Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s Carnation