Is Sienna Miller famous for a) being in the British tabloids, b) being an actress, c) calling Pittsburgh, “Shitsburg” in an interview with Rolling Stone that garnered her a lot of press?
The jury is still out on that overall verdict, but we will say she was great playing a Lindsay Lohan version of herself in Steve Buscemi’s “Interiew.” Whether she has legs to play someone behind a thinly veiled, vapid version of herself is debatable, but there is the “Mysteries of Pittsburgh” trailer that may help you decide.
However, it may not be the best film to judge her on, city shit-talkin aside. Based on a Michael Chabon novel, ‘Pittsburgh’ played to mostly deaf ears at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, but has been picked up by Peace Arch films. Much like, “The Great Buck Howard,” beware the Sundance film that lips into theaters rather than gets scooped up immediately and a film and trailer that dares to deliver the straight-faced dialogue that says, “my aura has not changed.” Ouch.
This honestly does not look good and the feel-good, “the summer my life changed” music that soundtracks this thing reeks of some kinda hokey desperation too.
The film chronicles the defining summer of a recent college graduate (played by Jon Foster) who crosses his gangster father and explores love, sexuality, and the enigmas surrounding his life and his city. By the looks of the trailer there’s some sex triangle going on as well. It co-stars Peter Sarsgaard, Mena Suvari and is due in theaters March 27 in limited release.