by Murtada
News is coming at us so fast from the 70th Cannes, currently unspooling, that we can hardly keep up. Let’s then take a moment then to ruminate on a film that might screen at the 72nd edition in May of 2019...
Announced for the festival market is Mia Hansen-Love’s latest, Bergman Island. Set on the island of Fårö, home to the late Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, the story centres on an American filmmaking couple who retreat to the island for the summer to write screenplays in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired their directorial idol. Also announced is a cast of three: Greta Gerwig, Mia Wasikowska and John Turturro.
The film is scheduled to shoot in the summer of 2018 to coincide with the centenary of Bergman’s birth on 14 July, 2018. Before that Hansen-Love reunites with her Eden (2014) and Things to Come (2016) star, Roman Kolinka in Maya. Kolinka will play reporter heading to India after being held hostage in Syria. Juliette Binoche co-stars.
Since Eden was inspired by Hansen-Love’s brother, and Things to Come by her mother, then this new one might be about her relationship with her her former partner Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper). Let’s speculate even further, Gerwig might be playing a version of Hansen-Love and Turturro is Assayas, no?
Game 1 Then who is Mia Wasikowska playing? Since it’s Friday let play a game and come up with her character.
Feast your eyes on Denzel Washington’s look for his film Inner City. We love everything about it; the purple suit, the huge glasses, the gap in his teeth and of course the afro. It’s been awhile since Denzel sported an afro, He Got Game (1998). The film's cryptic logline does not at all explain this character:
A driven, idealistic defense attorney, through a tumultuous series of events, finds himself in a crisis that leads to extreme action.
What we know is that it’s writer/director Dan Gilroy’s follow up to Nightcrawler (2014), that Colin Farrell co-stars and it might come out at the end of this year. And if Jake Gyllenhaal’s Louis Bloom in Nightcrawler is a standard to judge by, we are sure Gilroy created another distinct character.
Game 2. Let’s come up with Farrell's character who we assume is some sort of foil. Do your worst in the comments.
Angela Bassett has been unimaginatively cast as the CIA director in the latest Mission:Impossible. Wasn’t that who she played when both London and Olympus Has Fallen? At least we can look forward to her Ramonda in Black Panther (2018), before that.
Game 3. If you had the power to give Bassett her own franchise, what kind would it be?