American filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson is honored with a full retrospective of his complete work in the 14th edition of LEFFEST.
One of the most fascinating and inventive directors of his generation, Paul Thomas Anderson has had his signature carved in some of the most memorable work of the last decades. Winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin, of the Award for Best Director in Cannes and having been repeatedly nominated at the Oscars, Anderson has become one of the most important auteurs of North-American cinema.
Within a multitude of diverging historical contexts and character types, his films hold an unbroken thread that continually explores the nature of human flaws, brought to life through complicated, alienated, multi-dimensional and desperate characters. To give us access to their worlds, he invites us into a continuous rhythmical movement with a camera that follows, slides and turns unhurriedly yet energetically around the stories that these entail.