Robert Pattinson “The Childhood of a Leader” will screen as part of the Skövde Film Festival (Sweden) on 13 November 2016 at 1.30pm.  Information about tickets here and the festival here.

 

 

The Art of the Trailer has given us some background on how they went about creating the trailer for Robert Pattinson “The Childhood of a Leader”.  Such a great read – here’s an extract:

When creating the trailer to Brady Corbet’s debut feature The Childhood Of A Leader, the team at Synchronicity focused on two core areas of the film, as editor Andrew Jones explains: “The film opens and ends with whirling, loud, intense pieces of music by composer Scott Walker, which play with the dark and strange visuals to disarm and disorient the viewers,” he says. “The film’s body, however, plays slow and quiet, brimming with a burn that sets ablaze precisely when the director wants it to, making the tone of the film hard to sell within a short period of time.”

The team took a few approaches to the trailer with this in mind. “We made two distinct versions with specific moods: one that was slow and quiet, playing out like a dark European arthouse drama with something slightly creeping behind the frame as it progressed to a conclusion; and a ‘fun one’, where we took the craziest part of Scott Walker’s score for the film and the weirdest, creepiest, most engaging visual moments in the film and matched them up, losing narrative for a real feeling of the film’s frantic overture and finale.”

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Finding the key moments in the story to bring the child’s anger and rebellious nature against his elders,” he adds, “we opted for economy of storytelling, with the sense from the jump that there was something brewing within the film, so that each scene, and each line of dialogue, is one more step towards this. And then we found the natural way to introduce the montage mayhem, with Liam Cunningham’s brilliant counting until he smashes a door open. The immediacy and brutality of that moment, and cutting hard to a quote, helped drive the remainder of the trailer, in which, we worked in motifs to connect shots, and always tried to find more and more motion, intensity, things that may be construed as violent from a snapshot, until the title rolls in, and you’re not entirely sure what just happened, but – hopefully – you want to find out more.”

 

At first I thought we had this still, but I realised it slightly different version to ones we have seen before (see below).  I’ve also included the Polish poster – in anticipation of the 11 November release date.

 

These stills below are different (well this one below is a cropped version)

Robert Pattinson “The Childhood of a Leader” will screen on 17 & 21 November 2016 at the Heimspeil Film Festival as part of the International highlights section.

 

According to the Festival’s website:

Heimspiel – The Regensburg film festival is an initiative of the chair in media science and the cinemas of ‘Andreasstadel’.

In a year-round triage a team of students selects the best German and international productions of the current cinema season. Therefore it is our aim to support outstanding films, to promote newcomers and to create the right context for a kind of cinema worth talking about. The exchange between film makers and audience, as well as the contact with the film industry, scientists and journalists, plays an essential role at Heimspiel. Topics and priorities are established by our retrospective, homage and classic section.

Ticket information here.  Smart team of students including the film.

Thanks @deesoonz for the heads up.

If you happen to be in Orsa, Sweden on 1 November 2016, then you are in luck.  Robert Pattinson “The Childhood of a Leader” will screen as part of the Orsa Film Club at Cinema Red Mill at 8.00pm.

Or it could be a screenshot, but it’s Robert so I’m posting.

Father: You wrote that the human race “does not matter”.
Charles: No way. All I said is that it has happened before and will continue to pass again and again.
The Father: Nothing like this has happened before, we go. They are still counting the dead.
Charles: Please do not misunderstand me. This kind of brutality can be found since biblical times. And what I said in my article was not the rest of the human race did not matter; what I said was that, above all, one should not betray himself.
Father: Well, let ‘s look at the Bible then. You can say that Pontius Pilate not betrayed himself.
Charles: Well, that’s certainly a banal illustration that most students probably would not agree.
Father: Well, but …
Charles: The tragedy is not only that Pontius Pilate betray himself, but hundreds of people in the crowd who supported him were betrayed themselves. And that’s what I wrote about the tragedy of war. No one man had the courage to be evil; but many had not the courage to be good.

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