Quirky, Cosmopolitan Rule at San Francisco Film Festival
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The San Francisco International Film Festival, a magnet for independent and foreign productions, announced a quirky and wide-ranging lineup of features, shorts and documentaries for the 57th edition.
The festival opens April 24 with “The Two Faces of January,” a thriller based on a Patricia Highsmith novel set in Greece and Turkey in the 1960s. It’s directed by “The Wings of the Dove” screenwriter Hossein Amini and features Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac. The moviegoing marathon wraps up May 8 with the dramedy “Alex of Venice,” directed by Chris Messina, who stars with Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Don Johnson.