Red Lorry Film Festival Picks: A dancer who refuses to quit and an alcoholic who can’t quit

Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 is the film that will open the second edition of the Red Lorry Film Festival, which will take place between March 21 and 23 in Mumbai and Hyderabad. September 5 follows journalists at American network ABC TV as they cover the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Organised by BookMyShow, Red Lorry has at least 120 features, documentaries and restored classics.

The programme includes Sean Baker’s Oscar-winning Anora, Jacques Audiard’s musical Emilia Perez, a restored IMAX version of David Fincher’s Seven, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer and Magnus von Horn’s Oscar-nominated The Girl with the Needle.

Here are reviews of five of the must-see films at Red Lorry. Festival passes are available on BookMyShow.

The Last Showgirl: Behold Pamela Anderson

It’s common to describe an actor as a “revelation” in a film. In the case of Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl, the praise is fully warranted.

The film stars Pamela Anderson, an object of notoriety notorious because of her past as a Playboy model and her highly publicised relationship with her ex-husband Tommy Lee. In The Last Showgirl, Anderson casts off her image in the same manner as her character shakes off attempts to shame her.

Shelley (Anderson) is an exotic dancer at the Le Razzle Dazzle revue in Las Vegas. Shelley takes pride in what she regards as a respectable career choice. It’s a Parisian Lido-inspired spectacle with dancing bodies and not a nudie...

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