From avant-garde filmmaker Steven
Spielberg comes a sweeping epic essaying the final moments of a man’s legacy in
“Lincoln,” starring Academy Award Winners Daniel Day Lewis, Sally Field and
Tommy Lee Jones.
20th Century Fox, Dreamworks
Pictures present in association with Participant Media further reveals in “Lincoln’s”
international trailer (video link at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=v8ZLQ6UV7RI
) the final four months of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency. The full measure of the man—his passion and
his humanity—came to bear on his defining battle: to plot a forward path for a shattered
nation, against overwhelming odds and extreme public and personal
pressure.
Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” provides an
intimate immersion into the American leader’s most perilous and revealing
moments, at a time when the dark shadow of slavery lifts and a country torn by
war must be made whole.
Brought to life via a layered screenplay
by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner, Spielberg’s starkly human storytelling
and the performance of Daniel Day-Lewis leading an accomplished cast, the film
invites audiences directly into the heart and soul of Lincoln’s final
achievements. The Lincoln who emerges is a man of raw paradoxes: funny and
solemn, a playful storyteller and fierce power broker, a shrewd commander and a
vulnerable father. But in his nation’s darkest hour, when the times demand the
very best of people, he reaches from within himself for something powerful and
everlasting.
“Lincoln” opens in Philippine cinemas on
February 20 from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.