The Sarajevo Film Festival has set Ruben Östlund’s Triangle Of Sadness as its opening night film for its 28th edition, which kicks off on August 12. The film was the winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
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Andrew Haigh has another big production on the way.
The acclaimed filmmaker, responsible for Weekend and Lean on Pete, is set to kick off production on his next feature film called Strangers, and there are four big stars joining the cast, including The Crown‘s Claire Foy.
Here’s a plot summary, via Variety: Strangers “follows screenwriter Adam who, one night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbor Harry that punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers that his long-dead parents are both living and look the same age as the day they died over 30 years ago.”
Claire will play Adam’s mother in the movie.
Find out who’s in the cast…
The Sarajevo Film Festival has set Ruben Östlund’s Triangle Of Sadness as its opening night film for its 28th edition, which kicks off on August 12. The film was the winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
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Andrew Haigh surprised everyone with his last project, BBC‘s “The North Water,” a grisly adaptation of a novel about the doomed crew on a whaling vessel in the Arctic. Critics loved the show, but it’s quite a departure from Haigh’s understated earlier work, like 2011’s queer festival darling “Weekend” or 2015’s “45 Years.” READ MORE: ‘The North Water’: Andrew Haigh’s Brutal Whaling Drama WIth Colin Farrell & Jack O’Connell Is Relentless, Yet Captivating [Review] But “Strangers,” Haigh’s next movie, looks more in line with those films.
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