{"id":226771,"date":"2019-08-13T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T03:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=226771"},"modified":"2019-08-13T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T03:23:09","slug":"lucy-in-the-sky-with-natalie-portman-mick-jagger-movie-to-screen-at-tiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/13\/lucy-in-the-sky-with-natalie-portman-mick-jagger-movie-to-screen-at-tiff\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Lucy in the Sky’ with Natalie Portman, Mick Jagger movie to screen at TIFF"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Portman stars in \u201cLucy in the Sky\u201d as an astronaut who returns to Earth after a space mission and begins to lose touch with reality as she dates a colleague, played by Jon Hamm. (File Photo<\/a>: @natalieportman\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TORONTO \u2014 The Toronto International Film Festival has added more titles, including the world premiere of an astronaut drama starring Natalie Portman and the gala presentation of an art thriller with Mick Jagger.<\/p>\n

Portman stars in \u201cLucy in the Sky\u201d as an astronaut who returns to Earth after a space mission and begins to lose touch with reality as she dates a colleague, played by Jon Hamm.<\/p>\n

The feature film directorial debut of \u201cFargo\u201d series creator Noah Hawley will make its world premiere in the Special Presentations program during the festival’s run from Sept. 5-15.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Jagger appears in Giuseppe Capotondi’s \u201cThe Burnt Orange Heresy,\u201d which will make its North American premiere in Toronto after closing out the Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 7.<\/p>\n

Jagger plays an art collector in a cast that also includes Elizabeth Debicki and Donald Sutherland.<\/p>\n

Other newly announced world premieres in the Toronto film fest include the tragic family drama \u201cHuman Capital\u201d by Marc Meyers, which is based on Stephen Amidon’s novel and stars Liev Schreiber, Marisa Tomei, and Peter Sarsgaard.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican Son\u201d is a big-screen adaptation of an acclaimed Broadway play by Christopher Demos-Brown and has the same director, Kenny Leon, as well as original stars Kerry Washington and Steven Pasquale. Washington and Pasquale play an estranged, interracial couple who reunite in a Florida police station to search for their missing son.<\/p>\n

Daniel Radcliffe stars as a lovelorn man caught up in a clandestine world of deathmatch fighting in the action-comedy \u201cGuns Akimbo\u201d by Jason Lei Howden.<\/p>\n

Bare-knuckle boxing is the focus of \u201cJungleland\u201d by Max Winkler, starring Charlie Hunnam, Jack O’Connell, and Jessica Barden.<\/p>\n

In the sci-fi thriller \u201cSynchronic\u201d by Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson, Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan play New Orleans paramedics dealing with horrific deaths caused by a designer drug.<\/p>\n

And Garrett Hedlund stars as a poacher in the Gregor Jordan-directed romantic drama \u201cDirt Music,\u201d which is an adaptation of a Tim Winton novel.<\/p>\n

Other newly added notables that aren’t making their world premieres include the historical drama \u201cSeberg\u201d by Benedict Andrews, starring Kristen Stewart as real-life actress Jean Seberg, who was a target of an FBI surveillance program.<\/p>\n

\u201cWaves\u201d is a music-filled romantic drama directed by Trey Edward Shults and starring Lucas Hedges and Sterling K. Brown.<\/p>\n

And \u201cThe Aeronauts\u201d by Tom Harper stars Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne as pilot Amelia Wren and scientist James Glaisher.<\/p>\n

The Toronto festival also announced its 2019 Contemporary World Cinema program on Tuesday, a lineup that includes titles from 48 countries.<\/p>\n

Among them is Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal’s second feature film as director, the teen drama \u201cChicuarotes,\u201d and Minhal Baig’s American Muslim teen story \u201cHala,\u201d produced by Jada Pinkett Smith.<\/p>\n

The CWC program opens with Atiq Rahimi’s \u201cOur Lady of the Nile,\u201d about a group of Rwandan girls in a Catholic boarding school.<\/p>\n

TIFF also announced 11 films for the auteur-filled Masters program Tuesday, including the world premiere of \u201cDevil Between the Legs\u201d by acclaimed Mexican director Arturo Ripstein, and the North American premiere of the modern-day England tale \u201cSorry We Missed\u201d by British master Ken Loach.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Wavelengths program of international shorts and features by established and emerging talents will have a total of 37 titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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