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EXCLUSIVE: Phantom Thread prima Vicky Krieps is group to play Oscar nominee Rooney Mara’s occurrence successful Paris-set play Quest For Love, which HanWay is trading astatine nan Cannes market.
Written and to beryllium directed by Antonia Campbell-Hughes (It Is successful Us All), Mara will prima arsenic nan lead Maris, a female who “dances connected nan separator of subversion and violence”. She is described arsenic “a profoundly analyzable female who explores her capacity to consciousness emotion done her narration pinch her estranged ten-year-old boy Maxy. However her nocturnal habits hint astatine a vulnerable unit that lurks beneath nan surface.”
European Film Award victor Krieps, who precocious starred successful Ryan Murphy’s Monster, “will play Alex, a devoted aged occurrence of Maris’. As their narration re-ignites, Alex’s increasing enslaved pinch Maxy forces a deadly prime betwixt maternal small heart and romanticist obsession.”
Pic is produced by Macdara Kelleher and John Keville of Wild Atlantic Pictures. Rooney Mara will enactment arsenic an executive shaper connected nan task pinch WME Independent handling North American sales.
Campbell-Hughes precocious wrapped accumulation connected her 2nd feature, High End, pinch Andrea Riseborough, Guy Pearce and Raffey Cassidy.
Gabrielle Stewart, CEO of HanWay Films, said: “Cinema has created galore magnetic and iconic characters who creation connected nan separator of subversion and violence, from American Psycho to Silence of nan Lambs, but fewer are women. Antonia and Rooney person a very clear imagination to situation america pinch nan iconic characteristic of Maris. Vicky Krieps is simply a cleanable summation to nan formed arsenic she plays specified a pivotal domiciled successful its exploration of maternal small heart and obsession. Vicky and Rooney together will present each nan complexity needed to this astonishing and caller exploration of unit and womanhood.”
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.
Vicky Krieps is represented by United Agents, CAA, and Agence Adequat.
