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Sundance ’13 Poster Debut: ‘Halley’ By Sebastian Hofmann

With just one week to go until the 2013 Sundance Film Festival kicks off next Thursday, images are trickling in of the many films to debut. Beginning next week, M.L. will begin publishing short interviews with this year’s Competition and NEXT section filmmakers. But to whet that Sundance whistle, here is a poster debut for Halley , directed by Sebastian Hofmann. [ Related: Sundance Film Festival Unveils Star-Studded Premieres & Documentary Premieres Lineup ] Screening in the festival’s New Frontiers section, insiders noted it plays more like a genre pic, from the producer of Post Tenebras Lux . The film centers on Alberto who is decomposing and can no longer hide it, so he decides to withdraw from the world. Before yielding to his living death, Alberto forms an unusual friendship with Silvia, the manager of the gym where he works as a guard. Sebastian Hofmann’s Director’s statement follows (with Poster Below): Halley is an essay on the anguish experienced when the illusion of control over our bodies disappears. It is a contemporary gothic story that casts a compassionate look at the life of a zombie; a helpless witness to the decomposition of his own body. Alberto’s condition offers a reflection of our mortality and the solitude of decay. Halley seeks to reassert the temporality of our bodies in a culture engaged in its collective denial. By means of fictional infomercials, and the gym culture Alberto lives in, the film will explore how we conceal the frailty of our condition as living beings underneath a pathological idealization of beauty. We will see human beings running, though never escaping, the more disquieting facts of their existence. Halley is the name of the famous comet which orbits the sun every 75 years; the only short-period comet plainly visible from Earth. Records of its existence can be found in Ancient Greek and Chinese writings. Halley has been an enduring witness of our cyclical history. The time that spans each of its visits is the average length of a human life.

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Sundance ’13 Poster Debut: ‘Halley’ By Sebastian Hofmann

WATCH: ‘Trance’ Trailer Shows How James McAvoy’s Dreamy Eyes Cons Criminals

Awesome; Danny Boyle is back with his first new film since 2010, and what it lacks in James Franco amputations, his latest, Trance more than makes up for in James McAvoy, and a reunion with writer John Hodge for the first time since 2000’s The Beach . Trance stars James McAvoy as Simon, an art dealer who plots with, then betrays a criminal gang over the theft of a Goya masterpiece. The leader of the gang (Vincent Cassel) bashes Simon in the head over the betrayal, an injury which Simon then claims as the cause of amnesia which has the convenient side effect of erasing the memory of where he hid the pilfered art. (Note to self: practice amnesia for my spectacular bank robbery plan.) The question of whether or not Simon is lying looms large, and the mobster then hires a hypnotherapist ( Rosario Dawson ) to draw the damaged memories out, which apparently leads to a confusing blend of reality and dream, plus, we assume, plenty of angry Europeans and punching. Basically, it’s Dreamscape meets Memento . Danny Boyle is inarguably great, but it’s been a while since I’ve felt anything beyond basic admiration for his films. Yay to him for returning to thrillers, and Scottish actors, after so many years.

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WATCH: ‘Trance’ Trailer Shows How James McAvoy’s Dreamy Eyes Cons Criminals