Here is the first poster and trailer combination for Fred Schepisi’s adaptation of Patrick White’s “The Eye Of The Storm” starring the dynamic trio of Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis.
The story centers on a powerful, ex-socialite matriarch (Rampling) and the array of characters — including her celebrated ex-patriate actor son (Rush) and her daughter who married into French royalty (Davis) — who convene at her deathbed and find themselves still under her destructive influence.
It sounds and looks very Oscar-baity, ‘Last Station’-esque and is poetically described by one publication as “an antipodean ‘King Lear’ writ gentle and tragicomic, almost Chekhovian, with a female protagonist and “wicked” siblings who might be two halves of a Jungian wholeness.” Sounds promising.
Based on a script by Judy Morris (“Happy Feet”), the film also co-stars the likes of Alexandra Schepisi, Robyn Nevin, Colin Friels, John Gaden and Helen Morse and is expected to see an international 2011 release.
The trailer’s closing track, by the way, is “Brothers” by under-appreciated Australian band Little Birdy whose lead singer happens to be the sister of Empire of The Sun frontman Luke Steele — himself recently seen in a Nash Edgerton-helmed video with Teresa Palmer. And that snipped of music at the beginning of the trailer is from David Byrne’s “Glass, Concrete & Stone.”