Империя света (Empire Of Light)

Сэм Мендес

Роджер Дикинс

Оливия Колман

Ну да, круто. Только о чем и что за жанр?

О любовной истории

Empire of Light” is a love story set in and around a beautiful old cinema on the South Coast of England in the 1980s.

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If the "one-take" didn't net him an Oscar, may as well try to get it with a movie about cinema next

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Присоединился Майкл Уорд

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Мендес в интервью Deadline

I start prepping in November, and shooting in February, to be out at the end of next year or in the autumn of 2022 through Searchlight. It does have strong personal elements but it’s not directly autobiographical. I started writing it in the spirit of speculation, more than certainty, during lockdown. When there was not much else to do but go inwards rather than outwards. I’ve been delighted at the response of people who are in it, who want to make it, who want to shoot it.

Съемки завершились 26 мая

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Появилась информация, что премьера в ноябре

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Покажут в Торонто

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Гендиректор кинофестиваля в Торонто Кэмерон Бэйли в интервью Variety

Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light,” which is set in a coastal movie theater in 1980s England and stars Olivia Colman and Colin Firth, seems like another testament to the power of film. What drew you to that movie?

 

It’s such a strong representation of why movies matter and what they do to us that is beyond our control. It’s a terrific story of a woman who works in a movie theater, but she doesn’t watch the movies that play there. She just takes the tickets and deals with the crazy personalities in the theater. But as the story unfolds, you begin to see how cinema allows people to feel big emotions that they don’t get to experience in daily life. There are terrific performances, and it’s another great film from Sam Mendes in a career of outstanding work.

Европейская премьера состоится 12 октября на Лондонском кинофестивале

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The Empire is the kind of movie house you don’t see too often anymore, framed by bright lights and a beautiful marquee, graciously inviting all into its red-velvet seats. Hilary (Olivia Colman) serves at the front of house, opening the theatre every morning and overseeing a brimming concession stand. Meanwhile, her manager (Colin Firth) calls her into his office from time to time for illicit favours. It’s a gloomy routine that Hilary grudgingly repeats, but all her co-workers recognize that she’s been a lot quieter since returning to the job after a long absence.

 

When Stephen (Micheal Ward) arrives as an eager new employee, the two form a quick, if outwardly unlikely, connection. Hilary hides a troubled past, struggling to manage her mental health, while Stephen, a young Black man, grapples with the racism rampant in 1980s Britain. Both wounded by aggressions outside their control, they find an escape and safe harbour in one another — but their relationship, like the Empire cinema itself, cannot last forever, and soon the pair must face the reality of their differing futures.

 

Ward gives an exceptional performance opposite Colman, who realizes another remarkable character, equal parts sweet and shocking, as a woman filled with emotions that are considered socially inappropriate to express. Master cinematographer Roger Deakins exquisitely photographs the inhabitants of this story, created with great tenderness and compassion by writer-director Sam Mendes, making Empire of Light a love letter to the people who come together under the glow of the cinema, and to the beautiful tales they take away for the rest of their lives.

 

JANE SCHOETTLE