Best of The Fests

HANNAH

• Director: Andrea Pallaoro
• ITALY, FRANCE, BELGIUM / 2017 / DCP / Colour / 95´ / French; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Andrea Pallaoro, Orlando Tirado
• Director of Photography: Chayse Irvin
• Editing: Paola Freddi
• Cast: Charlotte Rampling, André Wilms, Stéphanie Van Vyve, Jean Michel Balthazar
• Producer: John Engel, Andrea Stucovitz, Clément Duboin
• Production Co.: Partner Media Investment, Left Field Ventures, Good Fortune Films
• World Sales: TF1 Studio
• Turkish Rights: Fabula Films

- 2017 VENICE Volpi Cup Best Actress

- 2017 CHICAGO Best Cinematography

Four years after being a guest at the Festival with his award-winning first feature Medeas, director Andrea Pallaoro returns with Hannah starring master actress Charlotte Rampling. Rampling plays the titular character, a lonely woman abandoned even by her son when she chooses to stand behind her prison-bound husband. Hannah is a strong and confident character who also dreads confronting a suspicion that’s eating her. Pallaoro, whose plain but meticulously detailed mise-en-scénes are compared to Haneke and Akerman, examines this layered character through a controlled cinematic language.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.