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Elizabeth Banks, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lee Daniels, Nick Jonas, Caligula & A Penguin Splash Into Crowded Market – Specialty Preview
The indie film market is looking lively this weekend with a big range from Elizabeth Banks in 'Skincare' to a restored and reimagined 'Caligula' to films with Nick Jonas, Chiwetel Ejiofor and 'My Penguin Friend' DimDim.
From facial wars to a penguin friend, wandering surfers and Haitian immigrants in Miami, the independent film market is fun, thoughtful, varied and contending with a faster cadence of high performing studio wide releases. Close To You from Greenwich Entertainment stars Elliot Page ( Juno, The Umbrella Academy, Inception) as a trans man who takes a long-dreaded return to his hometown for his father’s birthday for the first time in years since his transition, confronting unresolved wounds and reconnecting with an old flame. Shadowed by the murder of his family, Caligula (Malcolm McDowell) eliminates his devious adoptive grandfather (Peter O’Toole) and seizes control of the Roman Empire alongside his wife Caesonia (Helen Mirren) before descending into a spiral of depravity, destruction, and madness.
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