Cate Blanchett hosted the gala screening of Queer directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey, and the special screening of Ingmar Bergman’s Persona in honour of Liv Ullmann.

Cate Blanchett has a new short film coming out in 2025. BOZO OVER ROSES, the 11-minute short form video transmission is by Matthew Sidle and will have its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam. Morag Ross, Rory Powers, and Kerry Warn who have worked with Cate in several projects are on the film’s costume and hair and make-up team. Dashiell Upton co-produces the film. Matthew Sidle also serves as the writer, editor and cinematographer.

At the Museum of Arts and Design on Saturday, Lanvin hosted a screening of Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 film “Persona,” along with the film’s lead, Liv Ullmann, and her friend and past collaborator Cate Blanchett. The screening was followed by a reception at Marea.

Cate Blanchett, wearing Lanvin, served as the evening’s host. On stage, she recalled the first time she had seen the film. “It really knocked me off my center. In a way, I still am processing,” said Blanchett. “It’s one of the most profound and influential works of cinema ever made by one of the world’s deepest directors, with two unmatchable, towering, central performances, which are as gobsmacking today as when you created them.”

Addressing the rows of attendees — which included Marina Abramovic, Hari Nef, Jordan Roth and newly anointed Lanvin artistic director Peter Copping, among others — Blanchett acknowledged the film’s continued impact on cinema.

“So much has been said about this film. It’s been analyzed and re-analyzed,” she said, then recounting when she first met Ullmann her first year at Cannes before collaborating on a production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.”

“Liv has this incredible, radical openness that speaks to this profound and deep, indefatigably curious life that is lived with engagement and complexity,” Blanchett said. “You see it so often in your performances, Liv.”

Bozo Over Roses

Synopsis: In a crumbly land, enigmatic, sweatsuit-clad figures broadcast the leftover bits of humanity by harnessing funnels of radiating dialog.

Film’s poster.

Source: W Magazine, WWD