In a week where Louis C.K. debuted at TIFF his new movie “I Love You Daddy” (read our review here), which is in part about a filmmaker who was accused of child-molesting yet is still widely celebrated, it seems only appropriate that we get the trailer for a new Roman Polanski movie.
The director’s first since “Venus In Furs” is a thriller based on Delphine de Vigan’s novel, co-written with Olivier Assayas, in which a novelist (Emmanuelle Seigner, Polanski’s real-life partner of legal age) suffers from writer’s block, only to befriend a stranger (Eva Green) who becomes dangerously over-familiar.
Yes, appropriately for a week in which Stephen King is everywhere, it’s not dissimilar to “Misery,” but our Jess didn’t enjoy the film when she saw it Cannes. Aside from Green’s typically “feline, ferocious turn,” she called it “one of the director’s worst films, if not the worst,” a “preposterous” movie and a “suffocated, bloated and achingly frustrated thriller.” Perhaps an easier one to separate the art from the artist with, then…
Nevertheless, the film is heading towards a release date, at least in France, where it’ll open on November 1st, and the French distributors Mars Films have just unveiled the first trailer for the movie. It’s all in French without subtitles, which we don’t speak with much skill unfortunately, so we can’t add much more insight into the movie. But we assume that the performers are saying lines of dialogue that translate along the lines of “I have been a fugitive from justice for over 40 years” and “did you hear that a third woman accusing me of sexual assault recently emerged? That’s two aside from the one I was convicted of abusing” and “‘Many of my films are obviously amazing but it’s very difficult for some to watch my work because of the terrible things I did.”
Sony Pictures Classics will be releasing the film in the U.S. at some future date — in the meantime, you can watch the trailer below.