It's another "Cannes heavy" selection this year for the 48th edition of the NYFF. With the majority of the titles coming from the Croisette (look out for some personal faves in Cristi Puiu's Aurora and Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte) and the Lido (Abdellatif Kechiche's Black Venus, Kelly Reichardt's Meek’s Cutoff, Hong Sang-soo's Oki’s Movie, Pablo Larrain's Post Mortem, Patrick Keiller's Robinson in Ruins, Alexei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls, plus Raul Ruiz's miniseries Mysteries of Lisbon), I figure it be fun to take a closer look at the non-Cannes/Venice offerings.
We've got two indie projects that happen to star Paul Dano that we are keen on seeing this year (perhaps both might be ready in time for TIFF). The first is Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff and the other, is Dano in toplining So Yong Kim's For Ellen.
Among one of the rare U.S film in the sidebars this year comes the Un Certain Regard selected, regular snail mail accepted entry from Old Joy's Kelly Reichardt. Once again working with very little resources, Wendy and Lucy is a road movie minus the road and becomes a film that confronts our own inability to depend on strangers
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