PREVIEW: Beckett (15 TBC)

WHO’S IN IT?

John David Washington (Tenet), Boyd Holbrook (Logan), Vicky Krieps (Old), Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), Daphne Alexander (The Fourth Kind), Olga Spyraki (film debut), Giorgos Pyrpasopoulos (Chevalier), Panos Koronis (Before Midnight), Lena Kitsopoulou (No Sympathy for the Devil), Isavella Margara (Antistoli), Andreas Marianos (One Last Joke), Marc Marder (A Self-Made Hero), Maria Votti (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Ferdinando Cito Filomarino (Atonia.), director; Kevin A. Rice (film debut), writer; Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name), Francesco Melzi d’Eril (I Am Love), Marco Morabito (The Landlords), Gabriele Moratti (Suspiria) and Rodrigo Teixeira (The Lighthouse), producers; Ryuichi Sakamoto (The Last Emperor), composer; Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives), cinematographer; Walter Fasano (A Bigger Splash), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Beckett (Washington), an American tourist, is on holiday in Greece with his girlfriend April (Vikander). However, following a tragic car accident, Beckett suddenly finds himself on the run from the local authorities as he becomes embedded in a dangerous political conspiracy…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Producer Luca Guadagnino, and a number of his creative team from many of his films including the Oscar darling Call Me By Your Name, steers this international thriller in the right direction, as does a strong leading performance by John David Washington.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 13TH AUGUST 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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