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LFF opening night film announced
A British film will make its European Premiere at the opening gala of the Times BFI London Film Festival.
Aug 10 2006
A Brit
flick reigned supreme as the Times BFI London Film Festival's opening night film was
announced yesterday amid intense speculation. Kevin Macdonald's 'The Last King
of Scotland' is the LFF's final choice and will make its European premiere at
the gala on October 18.
'It would be an
honour to be chosen any year to open The London Film Festival - but it's
particularly great to be kicking off the 50th edition' Macdonald
admitted.
Tyrannical
Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is at the centre of the British film which follows a
Scottish physician who becomes increasingly and irreversibly entangled in the
President's political savagery. Forest Whitaker ('Ghost Dog', 'Panic Room')
plays the tyrant in question, with James McAvoy ('The Chronicles of Narnia') as Amin's confidant and doctor, Garrigan.
'The Last King' is
Macdonald's first foray into fiction features, following his successful documentaries 'One Day in
September' and 'Touching the Void' which won an Academy Award and a BAFTA
respectively.
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