Tag: Drift
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‘The Breaking Ice’ Review: An Unusually Even-Sided Love Triangle Gently Thaws a Winter of Discontent
Over the course of his first three features — “Ilo Ilo,” “Wet Season” and this year’s “Drift” — Singaporean director Anthony Chen has developed a signature style. It is a graceful, lucid classicism, a mode that in its straightforward sincerity is not fashionable in our abrasive moment, but can yield significant satisfactions. That is certainly…
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Anthony Chen’s Sundance title ‘Drift’ scores UK-Ireland distribution deal (exclusive)
Cynthia Erivo stars, alongside Alia Shawkat, Honor Swinton Byrne.MetFilm Distribution has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights to Drift, the English-language feature debut of filmmaker Anthony Chen.Adapted from Alexander Maksik’s novel A Marker To Measure Drift by Susanne Farrell and Maksik, Drift is a character study of a refugee – played by Cynthia Erivo – who is…
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Veronica Cartwright Cast as Real-Life Psychic in ‘How to Talk with Spirits’ Biopic
Veronica Cartwright has been cast in the upcoming biopic “How to Talk with Spirits,” Variety has learned.“The Birds” and “Alien” star will play real-life psychic June Ahern in the supernatural thriller based on Ahern’s life and book of the same title.The indie film, directed and produced by “Shopping for Fangs” and “Drift” filmmaker Quentin Lee,…
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‘Earthquake Bird’ Review: Alicia Vikander Soars in a Netflix Thriller that Fails to Take Flight
“It’s weird how people stare at you in Japan” observes Lily Bridges (Riley Keough), mere days into the buoyant and outgoing American’s new life in late ’80s Tokyo. “It’s like being famous.” Lily, a former nurse with a fondness for dancing and reading palms, doesn’t seem especially worked up about being noticed like that —…
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Drift Eschews Narrative In Favor Of Minimalist & Seductive Solitude [Nd/Nf Review]
Two unnamed women (Theresa George and Josefina Gill) spend a quiet weekend together around the North Sea, before parting as one (George) sails solo across the Atlantic and the other (Gill) returns home. Quiet and meditative to an extreme, Helena Wittmann’s debut feature “Drift,” which premiered at Venice and part of the New Directors/New Films…