New Delhi, July 29 -- NEW YORK - Tony Gilroy's new feature film opens on a musician in crisis. Pedro Pascal plays a cellist who has abandoned the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, circumstances undisclosed, departure already made. The music does not stop. It relocates. What follows that relocation forms the architecture of Behemoth!, which the New York Film Festival announced Tuesday as the Centerpiece of its 64th edition, bringing Searchlight Pictures and one of the industry's most unpredictable directors back to Lincoln Center in the clearest possible way.

a political drama, a study in institutional decay, a work that functioned on its own terms. Behemoth! represents his reentry into cinema, and the selection committee at NYFF has centered t...