Thursday, March 28, 2024

Tilda Swinton Jumps Into Oscar Race with London Film Festival Win

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“We Need to Talk About Kevin”– a disturbing film starring Tilda Swinton, has won Best Picture at the London Film Festival. “Shakespeare in Love” director John Madden spoke for the jury about Lynne Ramsey’s movie, based on a novel by Lionel Shriver: “This year’s shortlist for Best Film comprises work that is outstanding in terms of its originality and its stylistic reach. It is an international group, one united by a common sense of unflinching human enquiry and we were struck by the sheer panache displayed by these great storytellers. In the end, we were simply bowled over by one film, a sublime, uncompromising tale of the torment that can stand in the place of love. We Need to Talk About Kevin is made with the kind of singular vision that links great directors across all the traditions of cinema.”

“Kevin”‘s win might push Tilda into the Best Actress category for the Academy Awards, joining other potential nominees Michelle Williams, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Viola Davis, and Elizabeth Olsen in the running. The problem is that “Kevin” is a weird movie, unpleasant, and somehow doesn’t completely make sense. While Tilda is great as usual, audiences may question how her character, a mother with a mentally odd child, doesn’t do more to cure the problems of wild disobedience bordering on evil behavior.

The other big award at BFI London Film Festival is for documentary. The Grierson Award went to Werner Herzog’s amazing “INTO THE ABYSS: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life.”

Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.
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