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WWT Talk: New York Film Festival Check-In: Featuring: The Irishman, Pain and Glory, Atlantics, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire

By The Critic & The Ref
October 1, 2019
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The Irishman
Frank Sheeran maintains ties with the Bufalino crime family and claims to have killed fellow Teamster Jimmy Hoffa.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Produced by: Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Gastón Pavlovich, Randall Emmett, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Gerald Chamales, Irwin Winkler
Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci
Distributor: Netflix
Release Date: (in select theaters 11/1, available on Netflix 11/27)
Runtime: 3 hour 29 minutes
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama

 

 

Pain and Glory
A film director reflects on the choices he’s made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Produced by: Agustín Almodóvar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora Navas, Julieta Serrano, Penélope Cruz
Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing International
Release Date: October 4, 2019
Runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes
Genre: Drama

 

 

Atlantics
Along the Atlantic coast, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker.
But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co-workers leave the country by sea, in hope of a better future. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious fever starts to spread. Little does Ada know that Souleiman has returned.

Director: Mati Diop
Produced by: Judith Lou Lévy, Eve Robin
Cast: Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow, Ibrahima Traoré
Distributor: Netflix
Release Date: (limited theaters 11/15/19, on Netflix 11/29/19)
Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes
Genre: Drama

 

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

Director: Céline Sciamma
Produced by: Véronique Cayla, Bénédicte Couvreur
Cast: Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow, Ibrahima Traoré
Distributor: Pyramide Films
Release Date: December 06, 2019
Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes
Genre: Drama, History, Romance

 

 

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