The EnergaCamerimage Worldwide Movie Pageant has unveiled the primary batch of films chosen for its 2024 most important competitors — a trio of aesthetically adventurous tales about ladies.
The choice contains Jacques Audiard’s Cannes jury prize winner Emilia Pérez, Magnus von Horn’s arthouse drama The Woman with the Needle, and Rachel Morrison’s boxing biopic The Fireplace Inside. Camerimage organizers will unveil the remainder of this yr’s competitors choice — which often totals round a dozen films — within the days forward.
As beforehand introduced, this yr’s Camerimage competitors will probably be assessed by a panel led by jury president and two-time Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett.
Emilia Pérez and The Woman with the Needle each premiered on the Cannes Movie Pageant in Might — and each had been chosen by THR‘s critics as among the many finest movies of the 2024 version.
“Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and the divine Karla Sofia Gascón mild up Audiard’s fabulous musical by which a Mexican drug lord enlists the assistance of a lawyer to endure gender-affirming surgical procedure and begin a brand new life,” wrote THR‘s lead critic David Rooney in his sum-up of Emilia Pérez, persevering with: “The French director (A Prophet, Rust and Bone) has all the time been adventurous, and his newest creation dexterously spans types: It’s a redemption narrative with a present of Almodóvarian humor, moments of melodrama, noir, social realism, a touch of telenovela camp and an escalation into suspense touched by tragedy.”
Of The Woman with the Needle, THR critic Leslie Felperin mentioned: “In von Horn’s piercingly unhappy, urgently well timed drama, Vic Carmen Sonne delivers a multilayered efficiency as a seamstress in post-World Warfare I Copenhagen, left excessive and dry when her rich lover will get her pregnant however gained’t marry her. That leaves her with two selections: give herself an abortion with a knitting needle or have the infant and hand it over to a sinister girl (the nice Trine Dyrholm) who runs a backstreet adoption company. The movie builds to a devastating climax.”
Written by Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), The Fireplace Inside is the directorial debut of cinematographer Rachel Morrison. The movie was a essential favourite at this yr’s Toronto pageant, the place THR‘s reviewer described it as “an immersive, pull-no-punches dramatic account of the ascendancy of Claressa Shields, the Flint, Michigan, Black teen who would turn into the one American boxer, male or feminine, within the historical past of the game to win back-to-back gold medals on the Olympic Video games.”
The 2024 Camerimage pageant will open on Nov. 16 with a screening of Steve McQueen’s World Warfare II epic Blitz. Different introduced highlights embody a particular honor for Shogun star Hiroyuki Sanada and the world premiere of Alec Baldwin’s indie Western Rust. A particular panel dialogue will probably be held after Rust‘s first screening to honor the reminiscence of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was tragically killed in an on-set accident throughout manufacturing. Camerimage famously focuses on achievements within the artwork of cinematography. Blanchett and her fellow jurors will unveil the winners of the pageant’s Golden Frog awards at a ceremony on Nov. 23.