![]() ![]() Set on the Hollywood-underutilized Hawaiian islands, Payne’s first picture since “Sideways” is a pitch-perfect meditation on grieving in paradise - if you can even call it grieving, since the Clooney character’s comatose wife left so much bad blood in her wake that she’s openly berated on her deathbed by three different characters in three different tragicomic standout scenes. If those last three festival openers had trouble competing for attention, it was partly because “Descendants” immediately sucked up all the lovefest air in the room. The Colorado fest had three other notable world premieres in store in its first 24 hours: Glenn Close’s three-decades-in-the-hoping passion project, the gender-bender “Albert Nobbs” “In Darkness,” a harrowing Holocaust drama directed by Agnieska Holland that Poland put in the running for next year’s foreign-language Oscar race and “Living in the Material World,” Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison documentary, which debuts in just a month on HBO. That didn’t take long: Reactions to “The Descendants” ranged from near-jubilation to actual jubilation when it unspooled Friday at a secret patrons-only screening with George Clooney and director Alexander Payne on hand. ![]() It’s been left up to the Telluride Film Festival to come up with one everyone could definitively place in the “in” column. TELLURIDE, Colorado () - Reports out of the Venice Film Festival have mostly been around which films we can knock out of Oscar best picture contention, with “Carnage,” “Ides of March,” and “A Dangerous Mind” all suffering from scratch-that notices coming out of Italy. ![]()
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