In an interview, Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz discussed his new film 'Rosebush Pruning' and criticized the treatment of immigrants, stating they are often seen as enemies.

Actors Adrien Brody and Rachel Zegler have been cast in the lead roles for Karim Aïnouz's upcoming film, 'Last Dance.' Ben Platt will also co-star and write original music for the movie, which is being launched for the Cannes Market.

Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz is premiering his new film, 'Rosebush Pruning,' in Portugal, featuring prominent Hollywood stars such as Callum Turner, Pamela Anderson, and Elle Fanning. Special screenings are scheduled in Porto and Lisbon.

Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning lead a starry cast in this clumsy satire that provides little fascination in a wealthy family’s suffocating lives Since Jesse Armstrong’s Succession and Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, wealthy, spoilt, dysfunctional siblings are the new rock’n’roll, and now here is a film from Greek screenwriter Efthimis Filippou (co-author of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Alps and Dogtooth) and directed by Karim Aïnouz. It is a weird-wave contrivance concerning a messed-up US plutocrat clan living in Spain, freely remade from Marco Bellocchio’s 1965 film Fists in the Pocket. Their bizarre and cartoony secrets, involving sex abuse, manipulation and self-harm, are satirically symptomatic of capitalism and the patriarchy, and how the rich, however entrepreneurial and smart, create a next-gen class of useless drones, on whose behalf all this wealth has supposedly been accumulated. I have to admit to finding it heavy-handed and clumsy more often than not, although there are some good performances, notably from Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning. A strange extended family lives in a luxurious modernist house; the father (Tracy Letts) is a blind widower haunted by the memories of his late wife (Pamela Anderson) who was savaged by wolves in a nearby forest. His grownup children, infantilised by wealth, all live there: highly strung Robert (Lukas Gage) has epilepsy, and is entrusted with supervising his father’s horse riding; Anna (Riley Keough) is a talentless singer-songwriter; and Ed (Callum Turner) is a would-be fashionista. First among equals is Jack (Jamie Bell), who has the intimate honour of helping his father with his nightly teeth-cleaning; their mother’s teeth were always dazzlingly white. Continue reading...

Karim Aïnouz's new satire 'Rosebush Pruning,' starring Pamela Anderson, Callum Turner, and Elle Fanning, explores a rich family and their perversions.