Here’s what the royal drama has to do with drugs, ‘Scream’ is getting a sequel – and more movies hitting theaters now.
That’s what it’s about
- Here you can find out which new films await you in cinemas this week.
- Pablo Larraín mixes the story of Princess Diana with elements of fiction on screen.
- A young Swede emigrates to the USA to become a porn star.
- The slasher horror cult series “Scream” returns.
- A Swiss documentary illuminates the painter Franz Fedier from Uri.
«Spencer»
“Even if it was just our imagination, Diana connected us and it felt like a drug. It was so cool, so good,” Kristen Stewart told Deadline. The heady role is Diana Spencer aka Princess Diana of Wales.
In the early 1990s, she felt constrained by her relationship with Prince Charles (Jack Farthing) and the celebrity she experienced as part of the English royal family.
She wants to break out
Her life surrounded by royals puts a strain on her – so much so that she throws up over and over again in the film. She gets strength from her two sons Prince William (Jack Nielen) and Prince Harry (Freddie Spry).
Diana wants to break out of the rigid pattern: during three days of Christmas in 1991 with the British royals at Sandringham House, she rebels against protocol. She wears the wrong clothes, is late and decides to leave royal life behind.
The mystery of Diana
Pablo Larraín tells of a life shaped by the pressure to fit the perfect role.
The Chilean director says he staged a fable based on a true tragedy. Particularly interesting for the cinema: “The mystery that Diana carried is so great that we will never be able to crack it,” explains Larraín in “The Playlist”.
«Pleasure»
“People are consuming this insane amount of porn, but no one wants to talk about it. That’s why I felt that this film had to exist,” explains director Ninja Thyberg at “Collider”.
“Pleasure” revolves around Linnéa (Sofia Kappel): The nineteen-year-old Swede travels to the USA to become a porn star. But the experiences she stumbles into as Bella Cherry prove to transcend boundaries.
The main actress is an acting newbie
To research the film, director Ninja Thyberg interviewed porn stars and was present at the shoot: “I wanted to find the real people behind the stereotypes,” she says to “Variety.”
She cast the roles with people from the porn business – except for the main character. Thyberg spent a year and a half looking for the perfect cast: “When Sofia Kappel came into the room, it was like a fairy tale. I felt her acting talent directly, even though she has no experience in it.”
«Scream»
“Scream” returns after eleven years: Courtney Cox, Neve Campbell and David Arquette are back as main characters in the sequel. In Woodsboro, the Ghostface Killer has claimed victims in the past.
Now there’s a new series of murders and the small town must work together to catch the culprit. According to Cox, it should be “really scary”, as she reveals in a press statement.
If you have to struggle with art, then you’re doing something wrong, Franz Fedier was convinced of that. The artist, who died in 2005, became known for his abstract paintings.
Director Felice Zenoni is now dedicating a documentary film to him: in it, Fedier’s granddaughter Alma travels to Paris, Lucerne and Bern, among other places, and meets people there who accompanied her grandfather in his life. In cinemas since January 6th.