Tonight, the 43rd edition of Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma kicks off with a screening of Philippe Falardeau’s
The Good Lie at Théâtre de Maisonneuve. It stars Reese Witherspoon, Corey Stoll, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal and Kuoth Wiel. The film tells the real-life story of an American woman who helps four Sudanese refugees who have won a lottery to be relocated to the United States. The film will be preceded by a screening of the short film
Mynarski Death Plummet by Montreal's Matthew Rankin.
After the screening, there will be an opening night party at the Agora Hydro-Québec in UQAM’s Cœur des Sciences, which serves as the Festival headquarters. That is also where the festival holds its parties each subsequent night. The parties are free and open to the public.
Other highlights of the festival include works by other Quebeckers such as Maxime Giroux’s
Félix and Meira, Rodrigue Jean’s
Love in the Time of Civil War,
The Price we Pay by Harold Crooks,
In Her Place by Albert Shin, and
Wild by Jean-Marc Vallée. Additional highlights include David Cronenberg's
Maps to the Stars,
Boychoir by François Girard,
Nightcrawler by Dan Gilroy, and
The Tale of Princess Kaguya by Isao Takahata. The closing film will is the documentary
The Salt of the Earth (Le sel de la terre) by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.
