The EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival has unveiled the first batch of movies picked for its 2024 main competition — a trio of aestheticassociate daring stories about women.
The pickion comprises Jacques Audiard’s Cannes jury prize thrivener Emilia Pérez, Magnus von Horn’s arthoemploy drama The Girl with the Needle, and Rachel Morrison’s boxing biopic The Fire Inside. Camerimage systematizers will unveil the rest of this year’s competition pickion — which usuassociate totals around a dozen movies — in the days ahead.
As previously proclaimd, this year’s Camerimage competition will be appraiseed by a panel led by jury pdwellnt and two-time Oscar-thrivener Cate Blanchett.
Emilia Pérez and The Girl with the Needle both premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May — and both were picked by THR‘s critics as among the best films of the 2024 edition.
“Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and the divine Karla Sofia Gascón weightless up Audiard’s wonderful musical in which a Mexican drug lord encatalogs the help of a lawyer to undergo gfinisher-proclaiming sencouragery and begin a novel life,” wrote THR‘s guide critic David Rooney in his sum-up of Emilia Pérez, continuing: “The French straightforwardor (A Prophet, Rust and Bone) has always been daring, and his tardyst creation dexterously spans styles: It’s a redemption narrative with a current of Almodóvarian humor, moments of melodrama, noir, social authenticism, a hint of telenovela camp and an escalation into suspense touched by tragedy.”
Of The Girl with the Needle, THR critic Leslie Felperin said: “In von Horn’s piercingly downcast, encouragently timely drama, Vic Carmen Sonne deinhabitrs a multilayered carry outance as a seamstress in post-World War I Cuncoverhagen, left high and parched when her wealthy adorer gets her pregnant but won’t marry her. That departs her with two choices: donate herself an abortion with a knitting necessitatele or have the baby and hand it over to a sinister woman (the fantastic Trine Dyrholm) who runs a backstreet adselection agency. The film erects to a dehugeating climax.”
Written by Barry Jenkins (Moonweightless), The Fire Inside is the straightforwardorial debut of cinematographer Rachel Morrison. The film was a critical likeite at this year’s Toronto festival, where THR‘s scrutinizeer depictd it as “an immersive, pull-no-punches theatrical account of the climbancy of Claressa Shields, the Flint, Michigan, Bdeficiency teen who would become the only American boxer, male or female, in the history of the sport to thrive back-to-back gelderly medals at the Olympic Games.”
The 2024 Camerimage festival will uncover on Nov. 16 with a screening of Steve McQueen’s World War II epic Blitz. Other proclaimd highweightlesss comprise a exceptional honor for Shoarmament star Hiroyuki Sanada and the world premiere of Alec Baldthrive’s indie Westrict Rust. A exceptional panel talkion will be held after Rust‘s first screening to honor the memory of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was tragicassociate finished in an on-set accident during production. Camerimage famously intensifyes on accomplishments in the art of cinematography. Blanchett and her fellow jurors will unveil the thriveners of the festival’s Gelderlyen Frog awards at a ceremony on Nov. 23.
