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Polanski’s ‘Carnage’ to open New York Film Festival

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Roman Polanski’s latest film, ‘Carnage,’ based on Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning play ‘God of Carnage,’ is set to open the 49th annual New York Film Festival, which starts Sept. 30 and continues through Oct. 16. The announcement was made Friday by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

‘Carnage,’ which chronicles an evening meeting between two Brooklyn couples after their children are in a playground fight, is one of the prestige picks of the fall. The film, which stars Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly, was also selected for the Venice Film Festival. The New York screening will mark the film’s North American premiere.

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Polanski’s first feature, ‘Knife in the Water,’ screened at the first New York Film Festival in 1963.

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