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Backstabbing for Beginners
Director: Per Fly (“The Inheritance,” “Monica Z”)
Cast: Theo James, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Kingsley, Rossif Sutherland
Details: Danish filmmaker Per Fly makes his English language debut on this political thriller based on the memoirs of Michael Soussan. Theo James, taking over from the originally cast Josh Hutcherson, plays a young program coordinator at the United Nations who stumbles upon a corruption scandal involving Iraq’s oil reserves and his boss (Ben Kingsley). Jacqueline Bisset co-stars in the film which boasts a script by “Any Given Sunday” writer Daniel Pyne and is getting a release via celebrated arthouse distributor A24 which means there’s some proper potential here.