The critically-acclaimed “Aviva” (Outsider/Strand) casts each female and male dancers as each of the romantic leads, throwing out conventions of gender and sexuality in a love story that options some attractive choreography. Boaz Yakin’s movie was programmed on the 2020 SXSW pageant, and the Blu-ray options behind-the-scenes footage of dance rehearsals.
Also out there: Stand-up Steve Byrne wrote and directed the comics-on-the-road saga “The Opening Act” (RLJE Films), that includes such trade vets as Jimmy O. Yang, Alex Moffat, Cedric the Entertainer, Bill Burr, and Whitney Cummings; “Buddy Games” (Saban/Paramount) stars Josh Duhamel and Dax Shepard in an ensemble comedy about estranged buddies enduring a ridiculous competitors for a $150,000 prize; a newly sober carpenter tries to construct a house and set up a life in “Major Arcana” (GDE/Kino Lorber).
New Foreign
Melina León’s Cannes fave “Song Without a Name” (Film Movement), about an indigenous lady attempting to trace down the child that was snatched away from her proper after childbirth, is that this yr’s Oscar submission from Peru and it’s a gut-punching story of governmental corruption and private loss.
Also out there: Bag-of-cash thriller “Beasts Clawing at Straws” (Artsploitation Films) marks a powerful debut for filmmaker Kim Yong-hoon; based mostly on a real story, the drama “Habermann” (Corinth Films) explores the tense relationship between Germans and Czechs earlier than, throughout and after WWII; “My Prince Edward” (Cheng Cheng Films) dissects the stress to marry in modern Hong Kong and one lady’s efforts to interrupt free, whilst she runs a well-liked discount-wedding-items boutique; real-life couple Charlotte Gainsbourg and Yvan Attal star within the comedy “My Dog Stupid” (Icarus Films), a few blocked middle-aged author whose life adjustments when he takes in an obnoxious stray.
Two households flee to Argentina after WWII for very completely different causes within the romance “My German Friend” (Corinth Films); 90-year-old Holocaust survivor “Frau Stern” (Omnibus Entertainment) has determined she is able to die on this award-winning darkish comedy; biopic “Louis Van Beethoven” (Film Movement) is a luxurious retelling of the lifetime of the legendary composer; an Austrian refugee tries to determine “Where I Belong” (Corinth Films) as she tends to her ailing father in 1950s England.
New Documentary
“Audrey” (Bohemia Media) captures the various sides of Audrey Hepburn that made her such a singular determine within the 20th century, from her charming magnificence to her one-of-a-kind display screen presence to her tireless work as an advocate for UNICEF, a corporation with which she felt a particular kinship as a warfare refugee herself in her youth. Her off-screen life wasn’t all roses and klieg lights, however she was revolutionary in determining methods to use her fame to place a highlight onto worthy causes; director Helena Coan’s movie skillfully explores each Hepburn’s inventive impression and her private struggles and triumphs.
Also out there: The “American Masters” documentary “Keith Haring: Street Art Boy” (PBS) examines the life and work of the pioneering road artist whose daring graphics injected each pleasure and defiance into the AIDS period; Los Angeles baseball followers particularly will need to keep in mind the great instances with “World Series 2020” (Shout Factory); “Michael Smerconish: Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Talking” (Virgil/Kino Lorber) sees the radio host wanting again on three many years on the air and analyzing the USA’s bitterly divided politics; Laika and the opposite canine cosmonauts get their close-up in “Space Dogs” (Icarus Films Home Video).
“White Riot” (Film Movement) remembers the late-70s conflict between punks and Britain’s racist, fascist National Front social gathering; Jon Brewer’s licensed portrait
