Film Festival adds three new titles

NZ International Film Festival
Auckland, July 19-August 5
Wellington, July 27-August 12
Dunedin, July 27-August 19
Christchurch, August 9-26

NZ International Film Festival has confirmed three titles for the forthcoming festival.

Marley
Filled with insider tales to satisfy any true believer, and measured enough in its admiration of his unique power to make it essential viewing for the unconverted, too, Marley (Bob Marley) is a masterful work of “authorised” biography.

“Thoroughly researched and packed with phenomenal archival footage, it's a rousing tribute to a mesmerizing performer that forgoes blind hero worship…On stage, Marley is transcendent, enraptured. The mood is mystical, never mellow.” – Melissa Anderson, Village Voice

“Marley is sure to become the definitive documentary on the much beloved King of reggae.” – Jordan Mintzer, Hollywood Reporter

Your Sister’s Sister
Writer/director Lynn Shelton follows her head-turning Humpday with another boundary-nudging relationship comedy.

The emotional pivot is sibling rivalry. Straight Iris (Emily Blunt) and gay Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt) are Seattle sisters with different, but equally unacknowledged, game plans for the same man, Jack (Mark Duplass).

It’s exactly a year since the death of his brother Tom, and Jack still feels he’s not coping.

Iris, who was Tom’s ex, offers Jack the keys to her father’s island cabin in the wooded paradise of Puget Sound, unaware perhaps that her sister is also there nursing a broken heart – and a plentiful supply of tequila.

Shelton delivers quick-witted banter, classic bedroom farce and a feel for authentic emotional dilemma with a pleasingly naturalistic touch.

This film is great fun, and beautifully performed, with Duplass as the man in the middle underplaying his every blunder.

Crazy Horse
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (La Danse, NZIFF2010) completes his trilogy on iconic French institutions entering the private spaces of legendary cabaret club the Crazy Horse.

The film follows 10 weeks of rehearsals and performances for the new show Désirs, staged by famed cinematographer Philippe Decouflé and a cast of eccentric characters.

“Employing a wide array of gels, projections and effects (polka dots, leopard patterns), the eye-popping numbers at the Crazy Horse are drop-dead cinematic, at times approaching kaleidoscopic op art. Wiseman wisely lets scenes play out in long takes and the viewer's astonishment sinks in. He presents a sly analysis of how the Crazy Horse achieves the erotic without the vulgar and plays on the fantasies of the viewers, the dancers and the administration alike.” – Mark Peranson, Vancouver International Film Festival

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