Palm Springs International Film Festival 2023

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The Whale and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Alice, Darling (Country: US, Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Mary Nighy; Writer: Alanna Francis; Stars: Anna Kendrick, Charlie Carrick, Wunmi Mosaku, Kaniehtiio Horn)
A young woman trapped in an abusive relationship becomes the unwitting participant in an intervention staged by her two closest friends.
The Banshees Of Inisherin (Country: Ireland, UK, US; Year: 2022; Director: Martin McDonagh; Writer: Martin McDonagh; Stars: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan, Morse)
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Ryan Coogler; Writer: Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole; Stars: Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Angels Bassett, Tenoch Huerta, Martin Freeman, Dominique Thorne, Florence Kasumba)
The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa.
Chevalier (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Stephen Williams; Writer: Stefani Robinson; Stars: Lucy Boynton, Samara Weaving, Minnie Driver, Marton Csokas)
The true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill-fated love affair.
Living (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Oliver Hermanus; Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro, based on the film by Akira Kurosawa; Stars: Bill Nighy, Tom Burke, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Colin Blyth, Daniel Eghan, Richard Cunningham, Ffion Jolly, Dan Robins, Grant Crookes, Oliver Smiles, Michael James, Stuart Whelan, Jamie Wilkes, Edward Wolstenholme)
In 1952 London, veteran civil servant Williams has become a small cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding England post-WWII. As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns he has a fatal illness. Thus begins his quest to find some meaning in his life before it slips away.
Chevalier Chevalier
Chevalier and The Son
Moving On (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Paul Weitz; Writer: Paul Weitz; Stars: Jane Fonda, Malcolm McDowell, Lily Tomlin, Catherine Dent, Richard Roundtree, Carol Herman)
Two old friends reconnect at a funeral and decide to get revenge on the widower who messed with them decades before.
The Son (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Florian Zeller; Writer: Christopher Hampton, based on the play by Florian Zeller; Stars: Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Quarshie)
Peter's busy life with new wife Beth and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate comes to him with concerns about their teenage son, Nicholas.
The Whale (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Darren Aronofsky; Writer: Samuel D Hunter; Stars: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Samantha Morton, Ty Simpkins)
A reclusive English teacher living with severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
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