Festival Predictions

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #97. & #98. Richard Linklater – Where’d You Go, Bernadette & Untitled Moon Landing Project

Published on November 23, 2018

In an almost film per eighteen months pace, Richard Linklater might have not one, but two features released in 2019….and perhaps the filmmaker will attempt a two birds and one stone Sundance strategy. Where’d You Go, Bernadette (with Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig, Billy Crudup, Judy Greer) gets released via Annapurna Pictures on March 22nd (it was pushed several times due to perhaps the schedule conflict and could figure into SXSW’s plans) while the Untitled 1969 Moon Landing Film is suppose to be a 50th anniversary type of release.

Gist: Based on the novel by Maria Semple, this focuses on Bernadette, she hates people, she hates leaving the house, and more than anything, she hates the other parents at her daughter’s school. But when Bee’s mother disappears, it’s her mission to find out where she is and what really happened to her. // Via a child’s point of view, with a soundtrack of “regional hits” from the time this centers around man walking on the moon.

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).