Even with the upcoming Oscars promising to tie up 2025 with a bow earlier than we flip our consideration to the cinema of 2026there are nonetheless motion pictures from final yr’s pageant circuit making their approach into theaters. Living proof: “Silent Good friend,” the 2025 Venice premiere that went on to display screen at Toronto, is opening in New York and Los Angeles in Might courtesy of 1-2 Particular.
The movie is about to display screen at Movie at Lincoln Heart, the place it would kick off a retrospective of Leung’s profession that highlights his collaborations with Wong Kar WaiJohn Woo, and Hou Hsiao-hsien by means of a collection of screenings and in-person occasions.
“Silent Good friend,” which serves as author/director Ildiko Enyedi’s follow-up to the Oscar-nominated “On Physique and Soul,” tells a triptych of tales about people making an attempt to speak with crops. The forged is headlined by “Within the Temper for Love” star Tony Leungshowing in his first European movie, alongside Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, and Léa Seydoux. The movie obtained constructive marks from critics following its Venice premiere.
“In Ildikó Enyedi’s ‘Silent Good friend,’ communication between crops and other people lies far past phrases, however it’s maybe potential to attach with them extra profoundly than we beforehand assumed,” Leila Latif wrote in her IndieWire assessment. “Her cinema has by no means been content material with surfaces, as a substitute preferring to look beneath the on a regular basis.”
The assessment continued, “The premise is deceptively easy. A single tree in a German college city serves as silent witness to a century of human longing. The movie is structured as a triptych: in 1908, Grete (Luna Wedler), the college’s first feminine scholar faces close to fixed misogyny, discovers the common patterns of life hidden in crops by means of her black-and-white images. In 1972, Hannes (Enzo Brumm), a gangly farm boy adrift in a hedonistic haze of hormones and counterculture, stumbles upon a revelation by means of his contact with a love curiosity’s geranium. And in 2020, Tony Leung performs Tony, a Hong Kong neuroscientist specializing in infants who, throughout the enforced silence of the COVID lockdown, experiments in a brand new area of botany that might power communion with the ginkgo itself.”
“Silent Good friend” opens in New York at Movie at Lincoln Heart and Angelika Movie Heart on Friday, Might 8, earlier than increasing to Los Angeles on Might 15. Watch the trailer, an IndieWire unique, under.