As we inch closer to Cannes, we are learning the film package identities to the ten Investors Circle Initiative and among the hottest items we have The Settlers (Los Colonos) filmmaker Felipe Gálvez‘s high voltage sophomore feature which he wrote alongside Mariano Llinás, Antonia Girardi. Variety reports that Sebastian Stan is indeed a lock (we reported on this back in November) and Ana de Armas, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, and Alejandro Goic have been added. There is no production start date mentioned so we are tentatively assuming this will shoot sometime this year for a 2027 drop.… Read the rest
The metaphorical subtexts germinating to fruition through Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend are formidable, even as, with humble simplicity, they profess to be enamored with the central figure of a tree. Returning to the more meditative realm which defined her 2017 Golden Bear winner On Body and Soul (Enyedi’s first feature after a near twenty-year absence), her latest holds a steady, tranquil gaze across three distinct periods (1908, 1972, 2020) spanning a century, its characters connected by their proximity to a sturdy gingko tree in a German botanical garden. In essence, it’s a film which examines progress through our ability to communicate not only with each other but the environment around us, suggesting self-actualization is achieved through our sometimes brief moments whereby harmony is reached by mutual grasping of our interconnectedness.… 
3 Women – Robert Altman (1977)
