by Murtada
When you think Matthias Schoenaerts and Lea Seydoux, do you think of submarines? Schoenaerts of the smoldering look, hulking presence and that dimpled smile that shattered many hearts to Rust. Seydoux,who perfected the sexy butch walk when she went Blue. Well Thomas Vinterberg decided to put those two together in a movie about a sinking submarine -- not the story many imagined they’d be paired in.
The film, titled Kursk like the ship, started shooting this week. It is based on the true story of a Russian nuclear-powered submarine that sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea in August 2000. Kursk will tell the story of the 23 sailors on board fighting for survival and of their families at home trying to save them despite bureaucratic obstacles. Schoenaerts is the captain and Seydoux will play his wife. The film also stars Colin Firth, Max Von Sydow and Toni Erdmann’s Peter Simonischek. Anthony Dod Mantle will lense, and we hope he lights Schoenaerts as lovingly as Charlotte Bruus Christensen did in his first Vinterberg collaboration, Far From the Madding Crowd (2015).
A new film from Vinterberg is always cause for celebration, and a tense thriller is different than what he has already shown us. We just hope somehow he lets Schoenaerts and Seydoux bring their sexy on. In the meantime, tell us what would you cast these two in?