Sundance Film Festival promises another exiting year. Robert Redford founded Sundance to promote independent filmmaking and to engage, provoke, inspire and connect storytellers.
This year is particularly special for Central Flordia, as a film based on a local has been selected to open the festival.
That movie is Queen of Versailles.
Other films with much hype this year include many LGBT inspired film,s as well as the best of Hollywood that has come to Sundance to find their soul and the true spirit of their devotion.
Here’s a sampling:
Keep The Lights On
Director Ira Sachs continues breaking ground with another contemporary look at an American gay relationship. This semi-autobiographical movie follows the life of two men in love brought together by a casual sexual hookup. Their volatile relationship was driven by their two addictive personalities. Sexual addition and drug addition converge to give these two characters definition and intensity while preserving a sometimes, elusive love.
Love Free or Die
An openly gay bishop from New Hampshire refuses to leave the Church or the man he loves. It shows us, that it is time to act to conquer the “Ultimate Barrier”: freedom to worship and freedom to be part of the religious community of this Country while being true to our love.
Ethel
A rare introspective look of what it has been called “America’s Royal Family”, this
Political dynasty is seen from the eyes of Ethel Kennedy and her struggle to raise 11 children after her husband and U.S. Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy (Bobby) was assassinated in 1968. The documentary is directed by Rory Kennedy, Ethel’s daughter who brought us films like “Hidden Crisis: Women and AIDS” and “Pandemic: Facing AIDS” in 2003 in addition she has reported about other issues like violence against women, the environment and horrors of war.
The Words
An aspiring writer finds another man's haunting memories, memories that he claims as his own, propelling him to stardom. Acted by Bradley Cooper and Zoë Saladana (rumored to be a couple) also includes the performances of Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid.
The Surrogate
A poet with an iron lung decides he no longer wants to be a virgin; he contacts a professional sex surrogate to take him to a trip to manhood. The movie shows great performances by William H. Macy and Helen Hunt.
The festival’s theme this year is “Look Again,” so be sure to keep checking Watermark Online for updates.
