Chloé Zhao was the bowl from 2020-2021 Very longDeep-covid-era the Oscar season with the sweeping dominance of “Nomadland” at each ceremony up through Oscars. “Songs My Brother taught me” and “The Rider” director-friend for their Vérité-like, engrossing portrait of marginalized groups, told in their own environment-then swung to the Tentpole-Franchise Filler with the publication of Marvel’s “Eternals.” The film Got mixed reviews and was still up against a depressed covid box-officer rebound anyway, but still carried her signature naturalistic stamp where possible.
Enter her next feature film ”Hammen“A historical drama with a period with Jessie Buckley as Agnes Shakespeare and Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare himself. Based on Maggie O’farrell’s novel, the film puts a fictional, what-Might-sea-spin on their other romance and the sorrow that they met over the death of their 11-year-old. Also the kind of powerful producers on board who come with a revered record of their own: Sam Mendes and Steven Spielberg.
But after the project was originally brought to Zhao, the development continued (even without mentioning ”Hammen“Himself) at Telluride Film Festival 2022, where both Buckley, for Sarah Polley’s” Women Talking “and Mescal, for” Aftersun “, wandered at Colorado Mountain Town. Zhao found an actor she wanted to work with and then took a crack at the opening O’Farrell’s book.Vanity Has the first bucket on the film’s production.)
“The port”, who shot in Wales last year with period favorites Joe Alwyn and Emily Watson in the role, is said to be a great tears of the audience who has seen it. Since the Toronto Film Festival has invoiced the film as a Canadian premiere, and it does not play Venice, we know that it will be at Telluride this weekend. Buckley has meanwhile in another autumn festival premiere: Charlie Kaufman’s short ”How to shoot a ghost“At Venice, her second movie with the Oscar winner after” I’m going to end things. “
After its festival run, the “port” opens in selected theaters on November 27 before debuting nationwide December 12 from Focus Features, time for the award. More about the movie in IndieWire’s Fall Festival -Preview here.
See the first teaser below.
