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Sonoma International Film Festival To Open With ‘Widow Clicquot,’ Host World Premiere Of ‘Extremely Unique Dynamic’

The Sonoma Int'l Film Festival has announced the lineup for the March 20-24 event, featuring 'Widow Clicquot,' 'Robot Dreams' special screening & more.

“The world premiere of Extremely Unique Dynamic directed by Harrison Xu, Ivan Leung, and Katherine Dudas is the Gay-La Spotlight Film,” the festival notes, “with a party to follow hosted by actor, director, writer, musician John Cameron Mitchell ( Hedwig and the Angry Inch).” Award-winning actor Beau Bridges will be presented with the SIFF Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring a film and television career that began with 1949’s The Red Pony and continues with six upcoming projects, including the lead role in The Neon Highway, directed by William Wages. Bay Area premieres include Thea Sharrock’s Wicked Little Letters(Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley); Tony Goldwyn’s Ezra(Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne, Robert De Niro, Vera Farmiga, Whoopi Goldberg, Rainn Wilson); Daina O. Pusic’s Tuesday(Julia Louis-Dreyfus), Gilles Legardinier’s Mr. Blake At Your Service(John Malkovich, Fanny Ardant); Giorgio Diritti’s Lubo(Franz Rogowski); Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast(Léa Seydoux, George MacKay); Bob Byington’s Lousy Carter(David Krumholtz, Olivia Thirlby); and the aforementioned Merchant Ivory(Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Vanessa Redgrave, Hugh Grant), among others.

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