The EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival has unveiled the first batch of movies picked for its 2024 main competition — a trio of aestheticassociate brave stories about women.
The pickion joins Jacques Audiard’s Cannes jury prize prosperner Emilia Pérez, Magnus von Horn’s arthouse drama The Girl with the Needle, and Rachel Morrison’s boxing biopic The Fire Inside. Camerimage structurers will unveil the rest of this year’s competition pickion — which usuassociate totals around a dozen movies — in the days ahead.
As previously proclaimd, this year’s Camerimage competition will be appraiseed by a panel led by jury plivent and two-time Oscar-prosperner Cate Blanchett.
Emilia Pérez and The Girl with the Needle both premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May — and both were picked by THR‘s critics as among the best films of the 2024 edition.
“Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and the divine Karla Sofia Gascón weightless up Audiard’s wonderful musical in which a Mexican drug lord encatalogs the help of a lawyer to undergo gfinisher-stateing sencouragery and commence a novel life,” wrote THR‘s direct critic David Rooney in his sum-up of Emilia Pérez, continuing: “The French straightforwardor (A Prophet, Rust and Bone) has always been brave, and his tardyst creation dexterously spans styles: It’s a redemption narrative with a current of Almodóvarian humor, moments of melodrama, noir, social genuineism, a hint of telenovela camp and an escalation into suspense touched by tragedy.”
Of The Girl with the Needle, THR critic Leslie Felperin shelp: “In von Horn’s piercingly downcast, encouragently timely drama, Vic Carmen Sonne deinhabitrs a multilayered carry outance as a seamstress in post-World War I Cuncoverhagen, left high and parched when her wealthy cherishr gets her pregnant but won’t marry her. That exits her with two choices: donate herself an abortion with a knitting insistle or have the baby and hand it over to a sinister woman (the wonderful Trine Dyrholm) who runs a backstreet adchooseion agency. The film creates to a deimmenseating climax.”
Written by Barry Jenkins (Moonweightless), The Fire Inside is the straightforwardorial debut of cinematographer Rachel Morrison. The film was a critical likeite at this year’s Toronto festival, where THR‘s appraiseer portrayd it as “an immersive, pull-no-punches emotional account of the ascfinishancy of Claressa Shields, the Flint, Michigan, Bconciseage teen who would become the only American boxer, male or female, in the history of the sport to prosper back-to-back gelderly medals at the Olympic Games.”
The 2024 Camerimage festival will uncover on Nov. 16 with a screening of Steve McQueen’s World War II epic Blitz. Other proclaimd highweightlesss join a exceptional honor for Shofirearm star Hiroyuki Sanada and the world premiere of Alec Baldprosper’s indie Weserious Rust. A exceptional panel converseion will be held after Rust‘s first screening to honor the memory of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was tragicassociate finished in an on-set accident during production. Camerimage famously intensifyes on accomplishments in the art of cinematography. Blanchett and her fellow jurors will unveil the prosperners of the festival’s Gelderlyen Frog awards at a ceremony on Nov. 23.
