Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman said Hollywood is facing new challenges in the era of online streaming and needs festivals more than ever, in order for films to get noticed.
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“I rocked up here with Slumdog in my school shoes and a borrowed suit”, he recalled.
“It’s so nice to be back here with a bit of facial hair”.
Nicole Kidman’s latest film Lion was a highly emotional experience for the actress.
Since its first public screening on Saturday night, the tearjerker – which co-stars Nicole Kidman – has become one of the big surprises of this year’s festival.
“My life changed here with ‘Slumdog [Millionaire]'”, Patel shared. “‘Slumdog’ had a kind of frenetic energy about it and pacing”.
The drama tells the real-life story of five-year-old Saroo Brierley, who was adopted by an Australian couple after being separated from his family in India.
Lost and confused, the boy lived on the streets as he desperately searched for his hometown.
Patel plays the adult Saroo, while newcomer Sunny Pawar puts in an unforgettable performance as the young boy. “But that movie was an exhilarating, high-energy fairy tale, while Lion is something quite different – a sober and yet profoundly stirring contemplation of family, roots, identity and home, which engrosses throughout the course of its two-hour running time”. Oscar winning Hollywood access Nicole Kidman played Dev Patel’s Australian mother in Lion.
“I think film festivals are so important right now because it’s very hard for films to be discovered”, said Kidman, who has launched several films at the Toronto, Cannes and Venice gatherings.
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We are all scattered around the world and we make films all around the world and Hollywood is of some bygone era now which is sad in a way, she said.
