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Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #143. Supernova – Harry Macqueen

Published on December 30, 2019

Supernova

Actor cum director Harry Macqueen scores a heavyweight cast and crew for his sophomore film Supernova, produced by Emily Morgan and Tristan Goligher. Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci headline the cast with Oscar nominated DP Dick Pope (Mike Leigh’s favored DP who lensed two other productions helmed by actors, Edward Norton and Chiwetel Ejiofor, in 2019) serving as cinematographer. Macqueen, whose onscreen debut was as a supporting player in Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles (2008) first directed the 2014 drama Hinterland.

Gist: In a conceit familiar to The Leisure Seeker (2017), long-term couple Tusker (Tucci) and Sam (Firth) take a RV road trip across England to visit friends and family in the second year of Tusker’s dementia diagnosis.

Release Date/Prediction: Macqueen wrapped production in November 2019 and we predict a premiere at TIFF 2020.

Nicholas Bell

Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2021: France (Bruno Dumont), Passing (Rebecca Hall) and Nightmare Alley (Guillermo Del Toro). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.