Movies to look forward to

Sometimes the anticipation of a good movie is more exciting than the movie itself. So why not indulge in pre-release daydreaming? Here are the movies we're particularly looking forward to.

I'm still catching up on the pretty impressive oeuvre of French director Claire Denis but consider myself a fan based on her excellent Beau travail and White Material. Her newest effort is called Les salauds (international title: The Bastards) and it's been selected for the Cannes sidebar Un Certain Régard.

Sofia Coppola is one of  those directors that grew on me, which probably makes me the one person on earth who liked Somewhere better than Lost in Translation. With her latest project, The Bling Ring, Coppola once again digs into the theme of fame. The trailer reveals some small similarities to Harmony Korine's terrific Spring Breakers, mainly because of its airhead protagonists who curiously combine materialism with spirituality.

Check out the brand new trailer:


 
Then there's also the Susanne Bier Depression-era drama Serena to look forward to, featuring Silver Linings Playbook-duo Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper.
We've also got a new Kelly Reichardt movie coming up, called Night Moves, with Dakota Fanning and Jesse Eisenberg leading the cast. You might know Reichardt from Wendy & Lucy or western Meek's Cutoff, both excellent.
And something else to get excited about: Abus de faiblesse, Catherine Breillat's latest effort, starring the always wonderful and ever busy Isabelle Huppert.

As for exciting performances, I can't wait to see Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Samantha Morton and Olivia Wilde rock Spike Jonze's Her.
Wes Anderson has got a way of writing fine female parts and his next movie The Grand Budapest Hotel credits great actresses like Saoirse Ronan, Tilda Swinton and Léa Seydoux.
O, and speaking of Tilda Swinton: she's also got interesting parts coming up in Jim Jarmusch' new movie, Only Lovers Left Alive, and Snowpiercer, by my favorite Korean director Bong Joon-ho.

But the one female performance we're all looking forward to is this one: