Miami International Film Festival March 2-11
Quite the variety of films will be hitting the Miami International Film Festival this year. Everything from romances and dramas to Cuban zombie comedies.
Check out the full films list.
Big buzz surrounds many films this year, including Born and Raised :
BORN & RAISED – Trailer from Jerry-Rigged Films on Vimeo.
In a small, seaside town, a young man learns a thing or two about love, luck and life from his well-traveled, outlaw grandfather. Set in Florida’s beautiful Panhandle. WORLD PREMIERE (www.MiamiFilmFestival.com)
A rather new genre that shuffled into the American cinema has now ventured out of the US. The Cuban zombie/comedy flick, Juan of the Dead, will be having its US premiere:
This is the movie Miami has been frothing at the mouth over. It’s more than just the world’s first Cuban zombie comedy, and more than just another wry treat from the fertile imagination of Argentine-born Alejandro Brugués. The joke of this arch political satire is that 50 years after Castro’s Revolution, the citizens of Havana have been turned into shuffling, mindless zombies … (MIFF)
Now for some familiar faces: Diane Keaton, Dianne West, Kevin Kline and Mark Duplass will be gracing the big screen in the film, Darling Companion.
EAST COAST PREMIERE. Married to career-obsessed Denver surgeon Dr. Joseph Winter (Kevin Kline), Beth (Diane Keaton) is feeling edgy with an impending empty nest situation. She discovers an abandoned and mistreated dog (played by “Casey”) by the side of the freeway. Despite Joseph’s obsessions, “Freeway” becomes a part of the family. Later, during a gathering at the Winters’ mountain-cottage retreat, Freeway chases a deer while on a walk with Joseph and becomes lost. (MIFF)
The very versatile, Rachel Weisz, known for her roles in films like The Lovely Bones and Defintely, Maybe, also stars in the highly anticipated drama, The Deep Blue Sea.
In the fifth, and possibly most exquisite, feature film by the great British writer/director Terence Davies, Rachel Weisz delivers a deeply heartbreaking performance as Lady Collyer, the heroine of Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play The Deep Blue Sea. Feeling neglected by her conservative High Court judge husband, Lady Collyer takes up with a dashingly handsome young RAF pilot, Freddie Page (played by rising star Tom Hiddleston, who was a highlight of Midnight in Paris as F. Scott Fitzgerald). When the affair is discovered, Lady Collyer leaves her husband, but the boyish and spontaneous Freddie does not have the means to offer the Lady any real stability, and her despair mounts to a point of irresolvable conflict. (MIFF)
Check out the film schedules to see which day you would like to come!
