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SUSPIRIA IN CINEMAS AUGUST 2019 ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD A TERRIFYING RETURN LE GRAND BAINI Oscar-nominated director Luca WELCOME TO Guadagnino (Call Me By Your MARWEN Name) isn’t holding back in his ing paths of a young dancer and a LE GRAND BAIN CARELL TRANSFORMS remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 grieving psychotherapist at a world- STELLAR LINE-UP Robert Zemeckis, the director who horror movie classic, Suspiria—a renowned dance company, where Part of the official selection at the brought us Forrest Gump and Back teaser screening at the recent the price for perfection is high. Cannes Film Festival this year, Le to the Future, invites us to “a most CinemaCon had eager attendees IN CINEMAS NOVEMBER Grand Bain is a burlesque, feel- unexpected place” in an intriguing gasping, so hold onto your seats. good comedy about an unlikely new film. 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The stellar cast includes a unique and beautiful therapeutic Grand Budapest Just brutal.” Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet outlet to help him through his Hotel), the story FANDANGO REPORTER UPON and Benoît Poelvoorde. recovery process. follows the collid- PREVIEWING FOOTAGE AT CINEMACON IN CINEMAS OCTOBER IN CINEMAS JANUARY 2019 WELCOME TO MARWEN 6 GRAND CINEMAS JULY/AUGUST 2018 grandcinemasme.com 7 SCENEthe INTERVIEW NADINE LABAKI talks upcoming Capharnaüm, the drama that earned her a 15-minute standing ovation Sokhn Photos: Fares at the Cannes Film Festval What were the themes that you chose to address in Capharnaüm? NL: I always feel the need to question the pre-established system and its contradictions through my films, even to imagine alternative systems. At ß Nadine Labaki accepts the Jury Prize for Capharnaüm at the start of Capharnaüm, the themes the Cannes Film Festival, joined were: illegal immigrants, mistreated by her star, Zain Al Rafeea. children, immigrant workers, the notion of borders and their absurdity, through my films, Capharnaüm in the fact that we need a piece of “I am profoundly particular, I portray a disturbing paper to prove our existence, which idealistic in as much and raw reality, I am profoundly could be invalid if necessary, racism, as I believe in the idealistic in as much as I believe in fear of the other, indifference to the power of cinema.” the power of cinema. I’m convinced Convention of Children’s Rights. that films can, if not change things, as if blaming them for bringing him at least help to open up a debate, or You chose however to centre the film into a world that deprived him of all make people think. on the theme of childhood. his rights. From there, the idea for The idea of building the film around Capharnaüm started to grow. This film marks a shift away from the question of mistreated childhood your previous work, where a certain ... followed a heartrending moment So what is the subject of your film? optimism prevailed. that happened right around the Capharnaüm recounts the journey Zain succeeds in obtaining his time I was working on these ideas. of 12-year-old Zain, who decides to documents by the end of the film, Coming home from a party at around sue his parents for having brought Rahil restablishes contact with 1am, I stopped at a traffic light him into this world when they can’t her son… For the two of them, in and saw, just below my window, a raise him properly, even if only to real life as well, we’ve managed to child half-asleep in the arms of his give him love. legalise their situation in Lebanon. mother, who was sitting on the tar- For once, I didn’t want the happy mac, begging. What hit me hardest What “lever for action” does ending to be confined to the screen was the fact that this two-year-old Capharnaüm, and your cinema and I hope it will happen in real wasn’t crying; he seemed to want overall, represent? life through the debate the film can nothing more than to sleep.