But it’s still safe to say that this is another bold creative swing from the veteran filmmaker, a tense and absorbing acting showcase with visual splendor to spare.īased on the letters and diaries of Sophia Tolstoy, the wife of famous novelist Leo, the movie follows actress Nathalie Boutefeu as she wanders a lush garden and the nearby seaside, confronting her past and contemplating her future. It’s debatable whether “A Couple” is actually the first narrative film from documentary legend Frederick Wiseman, since he made two previous films built around monologues. And, as other films and festival lineups are announce in the coming days (looking at you, Telluride), this list will be updated accordingly.ĭavid Ehrlich, Eric Kohn, Christian Blauvelt, Jude Dry, Ryan Lattanzio, Samantha Bergeson, and Christian Zilko contributed to this article. There are films about everything from fraught families to the price of fame, the magic of movies and the tragedy of time, whodunnits and why’d-this-happens, and so very much more.Ĭannes Celebration of Movies Doesn’t Ignore Cinema Crisis: ‘A Future Whose Contours Are Unknown’Įven better? Many of these films have already set release dates so that wider audiences may enjoy them, and we hope to unearth a few unclaimed gems to join them in our list of most-anticipated films below. This year’s fall festival season includes new films from Steven Spielberg, Frederick Wiseman, Laura Poitras, Martin McDonagh, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Andrew Dominik, Sarah Polley, Lena Dunham, Luca Guadagnino, Sam Mendes, Joanna Hogg, Chinonye Chukwu, Jafar Panahi, Todd Field, Darren Aronofsky, Gina Prince-Bythewood, and Noah Baumbach, and that’s only the start.

The fall festivals are back! After unspooling as all-virtual affairs, truncated in-person gatherings, or some combination of the two over the last two years, the biggest fall festivals - Venice, Telluride, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival - are all launching full-scale in-person events in the coming weeks.Īnd what a bevy of new films do they have to show off. We can only exclaim that the fall festivals “are back!” so many times before it ceases to be true, but in the case of the 2022 season, we’re still working well within the confines of rock-solid logic.

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