Perfect Sundance-Cannes-TIFF Trifecta for ‘Precious’

Lee Daniels will have trouble topping 2009, unless of course 2010 scores him tons of awards. After receiving the prizes and acclaim from Sundance and making a stop in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, Precious: Based On The Novel “Push” By Sapphire will receive some more media nurturing during the Toronto Film Festival. The picture is joined by the long awaited film from New Zealand. After wowing audiences with Whale Rider, Niko Caro re-teams with Keisha Castle-Hughes and adds vets Vera Farmiga and Jérémie Renier to The Vinter’s Luck mix.

Partir – Catherine Corsini’s film stars Kristin Scott-Thomas and Sergi López, this is about a well-to-do married woman and mother in the south of France gives up her idle bourgeois lifestyle to go back to work as a physiotherapist. She meets a new man and shares a sudden and violent mutual attraction, and decides to give up everything and live out her new passion to the fullest.

Precious: Based On The Novel “Push” By Sapphire – Lee Daniels

Scheherazade Tell Me a Story – Egyptian filmmaker Yousry Nasrallah has crafted a film that received tons of criticism. A female talk show host in present-day Cairo finds out just how political women’s issues are after launching a new series, which eventually leads to the break-up of her marriage.

Solitary Man – Scripted and directed by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, this is about a former owner (Douglas) of a car dealership chain whose career and marriage were destroyed by his business and romantic indiscretions.

Valhalla Rising – Nicolas Winding Refn’s comedy was co-written with Roy Jacobsen and tells the story is about a mute Viking (Mikkelsen) getting lost at sea on the journey from Scotland to Scandinavia and discovering the America in the process.

Vengeance – Johnnie To’s film played awfully at Cannes. This is about a French assassin turned chef who comes to Hong Kong to avenge a murder.

The Vintner’s Luck – Caro’s film is an adaptation of Elizabeth Knox’s novel of the same name, the film revolves around a peasant winemaker in 19th century France as he grapples with the sensual, sacred and profane while searching for the perfect vintage.