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Rooney Mara (Carol) will lead Quest For Love, a caller characteristic written and directed by Antonia Campbell-Hughes (It Is successful Us All).
Rooney Mara will prima arsenic nan lead Maris. The characteristic has been described arsenic a “deeply analyzable female who explores her capacity to consciousness emotion done her narration pinch her estranged ten-year-old son.”
Mara will besides service arsenic an executive shaper connected nan task pinch WME Independent handling North American sales. Hanway is handling international.
Macdara Kelleher and John Keville of Wild Atlantic Pictures are producers connected nan project. The company’s caller credits see Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon and Saipan starring Steve Coogan.
Campbell-Hughes made her characteristic debut pinch It Is successful Us All, starring Cosmo Jarvis and Claes Bang. The movie premiered astatine SXSW, wherever it won nan Special Jury Recognition for Extraordinary Cinematic Vision. She has precocious wrapped accumulation connected her 2nd feature, High End. The movie stars Andrea Riseborough, Guy Pearce, and Raffey Cassidy.
Quest For Love was developed arsenic portion of nan associated Screen Ireland and Luxembourg Film Fund inaugural for female and non-binary filmmakers launched astatine Cannes successful 2023.
The film’s charismatic synopsis reads: “The ruthlessly unsentimental but alluring Maris (Rooney) tears into Paris, pinch her estranged ten-year-old boy Maxy. Raised astir her precocious deceased father’s euthanasia work, she’s unsure if she’s moreover tin of emotion love. Setting up location successful nan charming Marais neighbourhood, she explores her capacity for quality relationship pinch Maxy, who desperately craves his mother’s love. Magnetic and funny, Maris easy draws group into her orbit, but her nocturnal habits hint astatine a vulnerable unit that lurks beneath nan surface. Unlike his amoral mother, Maxy knows correct from incorrect – and he’s clever capable to usage her tricks against her to survive. Maris re-ignites a narration pinch Alex, a devoted aged occurrence whose increasing emotion for Maxy forces her to make a deadly prime betwixt mother and son.”
