London Film Fest Opens With Law, Weisz in '360'

LONDON (AP) The London Film Festival, an worldwide cinema showcase, opens Wednesday with "360," a fittingly globe-spanning drama that moves from London to Vienna, Rio p Janeiro and Colorado, Colorado.The film by "Capital of scotland - God" director Fernando Meirelles stars Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz in the daisy chain of interconnected love tales based on Arthur Schnitzler's century-old play "La Ronde."The Two-week festival features greater than 300 features and shorts from 55 nations. It promises something for cinephiles and celebrity-audiences alike including two star turns from George Clooney. He directed and stars in political thriller "The Ides of March" and plays a detached father thrust in to a caring role in Alexander Payne's "The Descendants."Stars expected round the red-colored-colored carpet change from funnyman Seth Rogen to dramatic giant Michael Fassbender playing both a sex addict in Steve McQueen's "Shame" and Carl Jung in David Cronenberg's psychoanalytic drama "A Dangerous Method."Films with literary roots include Take advantage of Fiennes' directorial debut, "Coriolanus," Andrew Arnold's brooding "Wuthering Levels" and "Trishna," and Michael Winterbottom's India-set undertake Thomas Hardy's "Tess in the D'Urbervilles," starring Freida Pinto.Founded in 1957 showing the most effective from the year's world cinema with a British audience, the festival has formerly few years attempted to produce a location round the worldwide festival calendar with bigger pictures plus much more glittering stars.While a lot of the films have formerly made their debuts at Sundance, Cannes, Toronto or Venice, you will discover 13 world premieres inside the selection, most of them new British features.Highlights include "The Child Getting a bicycle,Inch a drama from Belgium's Dardenne brothers and sisters Nanni Moretti's Vatican satire "There exists a Pope" Sundance hit "Martha Marcy May Marlene," starring Elizabeth Olsen just like a traumatized cult runaway and French director Michael Hazanavicius' wonderful quiet-film homage "The Artist."Debate may be provided by "W.E." Madonna's undertake the romance between King Edward VIII and American divorcee Wallis Simpson, considerably belittled at its Venice debut and Roland Emmerich's Shakespeare-bashing "Anonymous," which stars Rhys Ifans since the putative true author in the Bard's plays.On March. 26, the festival will hands out a best-picture prize, in the candidate including "The Artist, "The Descendants," Aleksandr Sokurov's Venice Film festival champion "Faust" and Lynne Ramsay's secondary school massacre drama "We must Discuss Kevin."The festival shuts March. 27 with "Dark Blue Sea," which stars Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale stiff upper lips a-quiver in Terence Davies' adaptation of Terrence Rattigan's play of a postwar love triangular.Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.