"Marguerite" plays in Telluride during the Labor Day Weekend before hitting US theaters
If you live in Telluride or if you take the opportunity of Labor Day to visit Colorado, you can be the first in the USto watch Marguerite, a movie by Xavier Giannoli, presented today at the Venice film festival.
In selection at the Mostra, this feature film is inspired by the life of Florence Foster Jenkins. Thanks to the inheritance from her father, this Philadelphian woman, over the age of forty, began singing professionally. She continued a "career" as a soprano in the 1920's, even though she butchered all of the great arias. Giannoli's story is made magical against the backdrop of Paris during the Roaring Twenties.
With Catherine Frot in the title role, Marguerite will be released in France in two weeks. Cohen Media announced yesterday that the Group had bought the rights to distribute this movie in the US next spring. It will first play in Telluride from September 5 to September 7.
The Telluride Film Festival will also screen:
Hitchcock/Truffaut, the excellent documentary by Kent Jones shown this year at Cannes, on September 4th, 5th and 6th.
Two films by Jean Eustache: My Little Loves, on September 4th and The Mother and the Whore, on September 7th.
The Inhuman Woman, a 1924 silent movie by Marcel L'Herbier, with a live original orchestral accompaniment, on September 6th.
A Day in the Country, a short film by Jean Renoir, on September 6th, with two other shorts: Uncle Yanko by Agnès Varda and Une bonne à tout faire, by Jean-Luc Godard.
