Watch the theatrical trailer and online exclusive (via Slashfilm) below. “Labor Day” opens on Christmas Day in limited release.
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Canadian director Jason Reitman’s Labor Day starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, British writer/director Clio Barnard’s The Selfish Giant and award-winning Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’sThe Past, the follow-up to the Oscar-winning success A Separation are among the titles chosen to unspool in the Dubai International Film Festival’s Cinema of the World sidebar in December.
Joining the trio in the high profile international section will be filmmaker Ivan Sen’s contemporary thriller Mystery Road, which he directed, wrote, shot, edited and scored, and which stars Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving and Ryan Kwanten.
Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty and Belgium’s Marion Hansel’s Tenderness will also play in the section.
DIFF artistic director Masoud Amralla Al Ali said: “The Cinema of the World section is a rich and diverse program ranging from international art-house to Hollywood films from both established and upcoming talent that will captivate audiences this year at DIFF. We look forward to announcing more films that promise to connect DIFF audiences to the widest choice of world cinema this December.”
DIFF will celebrate its 10th year when it runs Dec. 6-14.
2013 Sep 08
Labor Day at TIFF: More pictures
And here are more pictures of Kate yesterday at ‘Labor Day’ premiere. She was beautiful wearing a Jenny Peckham dress and Ana Kouri earrings. Check it:
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2013 Sep 07
TIFF: ‘Labor Day’ Press Conference
The first pictures of Kate at the ‘Labor Day’ press conference at Toronto Festival are now up, but you can check back later for tons more:
2013 Sep 06
Labor Day: First Clip
The escaped convict drama Labor Day has released its first clip, one day before playing at the Toronto International Film Festival tomorrow night.
Kate Winslet stars as a shut-in, emotionally fragile single mother who encounters Josh Brolin’s wounded fugitive while on a rare shopping trip with her young son (Gattlin Griffith.) The man needs a place to lay low, and she agrees — mostly out of fear, but also from a buried, hidden attraction.
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2013 Aug 30
Labor Day: Telluride Review
My immediate takeaway from Jason Reitman’s “Labor Day,” which kicks off the Telluride Film Festival this afternoon at the annual patrons screening, was that it was an unexpected mature step for the filmmaker who has offered up such self-aware films as “Thank You For Smoking,” “Juno,” “Up in the Air” and “Young Adult.” There isn’t a whiff of that tone here whatsoever. The edge that has defined Reitman’s work has been set aside while a more refined, lived-in aesthetic has taken hold.
Those other films had a very distinct voice, and they were all great movies. This one is told in a completely different voice, however, and I guess that’s what I mean when I say the results are unexpected; it’s unusual to see a filmmaker tap another perspective on narrative so confidently this early in a career. Reitman is still under a decade in features, after all.
The work I was most reminded of was Clint Eastwood’s from the early-90s. Indeed, “Labor Day,” which is based on the novel by Joyce Maynard, feels like it was baked in the same oven as “A Perfect World” or “The Bridges of Madison County.” It sits with its characters, measured, patient with them.
The drama centers on Kate Winslet as Adele, the mildly reclusive mother of 16-year-old Henry (Gattlin Griffith). The two are taken captive by escaped convict Frank (Josh Brolin) in their New Hampshire home over a Labor Day weekend in 1987 (making the film’s debut this particular weekend all the more apt). But Frank isn’t what he seems to be and as we learn his story, the reason for Adele’s emotional neurosis and the impact the weekend has on Henry, the film becomes a story of family and, more profoundly, the burden of responsibility a young person has to the emotional well-being of a parent.
