‘Elsinore’ to Close Camerimage Festival

Elsinore, Simon Stone’s award season contender starring Andrew Scott, will close the 34th edition of Camerimage.

The real-life drama, shot by Mike Eley, stars Scott as Ian Charleson, the Scottish actor best known for Chariots of Fire, who in the last days of his life before succumbing to AIDS, threw himself into a final stage performance of Hamlet. Olivia Colman, Joe Locke and Johnny Flynn co-star.

The film, written by Stephen Beresford, premiered at Telluride and opened the BFI London Film Festival in October.

The closing-night slot follows a program that brings together a number of this year’s awards contenders. Among the titles in competition for the festival’s Golden Frog trophy are Project Hail Mary, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and shot by Greig Fraser; Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, with cinematography by Janusz Kamiński; and Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, shot by Ben Davis. The competition also includes Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth!, photographed by Damián García; Minotaur, from Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev and shot by longtime collaborator Mikhail Krichman; and May el-Toukhy’s Venice Film Festival winner Woman Unknown, shot by Jasper J. Spanning.

Other competition entries are Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, shot by Lukasz Zal; Hans Petter Moland’s Growth of the Soil, photographed by Oskar Dahlsbakken; and Visitation, directed by Volker Schlöndorff and shot by Axel Schneppat.

Camerimage, the largest festival dedicated to the art of cinematography, runs Nov. 7-14.