PREVIEW: Charlotte (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game), Brenda Blethyn (Secrets & Lies), Jim Broadbent (Iris), Sam Claflin (Me Before You), Henry Czerny (Ready or Not), Eddie Marsan (Tyrannosaur), Helen McCrory (Becoming Jane), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), Mark Strong (Cruella), Pippa Bennett-Warner (See How They Run), Raoul Bhaneja (Miss Sloane), Julian Richings (Open Range), Tony Nappo (Better Than Chocolate)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Tahir Rana (film debut) and Éric Warin (Ballerina), directors; David Bezmozgis (Victoria Day) and Erik Rutherford (film debut), writers; Jérôme Dopffer (Water Lillies), Eric Goossens (Desert Haze), Anton Roebben (Where Is Anne Frank) and Julia Rosenberg (Sundowners), producers; Michelino Bisceglia (The Pickle Recipe), composer; Roderick Deogrades (One Week) and Sam Patterson (film debut), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

The story of Charlotte Salomon (Knightley), a Jewish artist in Nazi Germany whose dreams are derailed by anti-Semitic sentiment, and who ends up retreating to the South of France during the Second World War, where she sets out to craft what would become her most famous works…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The studio behind the Oscar-nominated Loving Vincent comes another high-class animated biopic, this time of the tragic German artist Charlotte Salomon, with Keira Knightley voicing her alongside a strong voice cast (including the late Helen McCrory).

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 9TH DECEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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