BEL CANTO (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Ken Watanabe (Inception), Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others), Christopher Lambert (Highlander), Ryo Kase (Silence), Tenoch Huerta Mejía (Sin Nombre), María Mercedes Coroy (Ixcanul), Olek Krupa (Eraser), Elsa Zylberstein (I’ve Loved You So Long), J. Eddie Martinez (A Better Life), Bobby Daniel Rodriguez (film debut), Nico Bustamante (Gotti), Jay Santiago (Explicit Ills)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Paul Weitz (Grandma), director, writer, producer; Anthony Weintraub (Tekkonkinkreet), writer, producer; Caroline Baron (Capote), Lizzie Friedman (Ride), Karen Lauder (The Land), Greg Little (Dreamland) and Andrew Miano (A Single Man), producers; David Majzlin (8:46), composer; Tobias Datum (Terri), cinematographer; Suzy Elmiger (Milarepa), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Roxanne Coss (Moore), a famous American soprano, travels to South America to perform at a birthday party for rich Japanese industrialist Katsumi Hosokawa (Watanabe). However, the guests are held hostage by guerrillas and their leader Comandante Benjamin (Huerta), who is demanding the release of his imprisoned comrades…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe are left to survive alongside a host of international actors in this intense hostage drama.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 26TH APRIL 2019

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