*Director Steve McQueen’s heist thriller “Widows” kicked off the London Film Festival on Wednesday, and Viola Davis and “Get Out” star Daniel Kaluuya were among stars on the red carpet at the opening gala.
“Widows” stars Viola, Michelle Rodriguez and Elizabeth Debicki as women who band together after their husbands are killed in a robbery gone wrong. According to Page Six, the Chicago-set movie by the Academy Award-winning, London-born director of “12 Years a Slave” weaves race, money and class in America into a twisting thriller.
“I’m very proud, it’s my hometown.” McQueen sad on having his female-fuelled thriller open this year’s festival.
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“I’m very proud, it’s my home town.” Steve McQueen speaks on having his female-fuelled heist thriller Widows open this year’s #LFF pic.twitter.com/QZv8dBT2Bk
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“People are ready to see women-centric movies that are empowering,” Davis noted, whose performance has been praised as “fierce and regal.”
“It’s really amazing to be a part of this company,” said Daniel Kaluuya of the powerhouse cast that includes Liam Neeson.
“It’s really amazing to be a part of this company.” – Daniel Kaluuya lists just some of the powerhouse cast in Steve McQueen’s pulsating heist movie Widows at the #LFF Opening Night Gala pic.twitter.com/w0aDgkT7Zo
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Meanwhile, the London Film Festival reportedly includes the event’s biggest-ever selection of films by women.
Films directed by women include Sudabeh Mortezai’s sex-trafficking drama “Joy”; Karyn Kusama’s police thriller “Destroyer” starring Nicole Kidman; and Sara Colangelo’s drama “The Kindergarten Teacher” with Maggie Gyllenhaal.
The schedule also includes David Mackenzie’s kilts-and-carnage Scottish epic “Outlaw King”; Joel and Ethan Coen’s Western anthology film “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”; Alfonso Cuaron’s Mexico-set “Roma”; Mike Leigh’s historical saga “Peterloo”; and Peter Jackson’s documentary “They Shall Not Grow Old,” which transforms grainy footage from World War I into color.
The festival closes Oct. 21 with John S. Baird’s Laurel and Hardy biopic “Stan & Ollie.”
“People are ready to see women-centric movies that are empowering” – @violadavis on how female-fuelled heist move Widows taps into the zeitgeist #LFF pic.twitter.com/OvXSpiKhbD
— BFI (@BFI) October 10, 2018
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