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Broadway biopic and film with Jessica Chastain among Berlinale highlights
Contenders for prestigious Golden and Silver Bear unveiled with 75th edition of festival due to open on 13 February
Richard Linklater’s long-awaited Broadway biopic Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley, a Mexican love story with Jessica Chastain as a socialite who falls for a émigré ballet dancer, and a British family drama set in Spain featuring Emma Mackey and Fiona Shaw will premiere in competition at next month’s Berlin film festival. In Linklater’s Blue Moon, Hawke plays legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart who is struggling with alcoholism as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers fetes the opening of his smash musical Oklahoma!, in a cast also including Andrew Scott and Bobby Cannavale. Mackey (Sex Education) joins Vicky Krieps and Shaw in an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s acclaimed novel Hot Milk about a mother and daughter grappling with their fragile bond in a holiday beach house.
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