NEW FEATURES Maine Premiere
THE BEASTS
Saturday, July 8 9PM | MFC 1 Saturday, July 15 3:20PM | MFC 3
Spain 2022 - DCP - 137 minutes, in Spanish and French with English subtitles Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen Screenplay: Isabel Peña, Rodrigo Sorogoyen Producers: Ignasi Estapé, Anne-Laure Labadie, Jean Labadie, Nacho Lavilla, Thomas Pibarot, Rodrigo Sorogoyen Cast: Marina Foïs, Denis Ménochet, Luis Zahera, Diego Anido, Marie Colomb Print Courtesy: Greenwich Entertainment Winner of nine Goya awards including Best Film of the Year as well as Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Music, The Beasts truly deserved them all. It’s an extraordinary film that is at once a psychological thriller, a deeply moving love story, and a multilayered commentary on class divide, xenophobia, and the gulf between city and country. Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s memorably intense film is set in a Galician (the “wild west” of Spain) farming village. It’s a region that’s as sweepingly idyllic as it is economically depressed. A bourgeois French couple, committed to organic farming, settles uneasily among the poor Spanish farmers who’ve struggled for generations to earn a living from this land. They clash over whether to sell their land to foreign interests who’ve offered fast money to develop wind power there. — KE Sponsored by Stephen and Cathy Sears
World Premiere
THE LAST DREAM: TARKOVSKY AND THE SACRIFICE
Wednesday, July 12 3:40PM | MFC 2 Thursday, July 13 9:20PM | MFC 3
United Kingdom 2023 - DCP - 72 minutes, in English and in Swedish, French, and Russian with English subtitles Directors, Print Courtesy: Seán Martin and Louise Milne Longtime MIFF regulars Seán Martin and Louise Milne premiere their latest film, a further exploration of the world of cinematic genius Andrei Tarkovsky, this time through his final—and some say his most stunning—film, The Sacrifice. The Last Dream returns to the stark Swedish landscape of Tarkovsky’s vision, and to his collaborators in making it, whose reminiscences about the film’s shoot and of Tarkovsky himself are themselves memorable, and frequently deeply illuminating. Please note the opportunity to see The Sacrifice at MIFF this year in addition to seeing The Last Dream. —KE
Maine International Film Festival 2023 MIFF.ORG
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