With three competition titles across the last four editions, no contemporary filmmaker has been more present on the Venice Lido than director Michel Franco. The Mexican auteur returned to the…
'Memory' Review: Jessica Chastain & Peter Sarsgaard Reconnect, Disrupt Several Lives In Michel Franco's Thoughtful Drama - Venice Film Festival
Brooke Timber, Merritt Wever, Elsie Fisher, Jessica Harper, and Josh Charles also star in the pic, which is looking for a buyer here in Venice. The Match Factory is repping sales. Below, Franco, Chastain, and Sarsgaard speak with Deadline about how the film came together, and why they believed it was important to obtain an interim agreement and travel to Venice. The trio also shares their overall opinions on the dual Hollywood strikes and Sarsgaard teases the next film from his wife, actor-director Maggie Gyllenhaal.
He said there’s no makeup; you won’t have a trailer. I was like, ‘great.’ I’ve never worked like this before. It made me so happy. I went to the store and bought clothes for Silvia at Target, and we did fittings. I felt really like I could find her skin. It felt incredibly inspiring and exciting.I reached out to Peter, but I asked Jessica who do you want to work with. Because I knew that those two actors needed to have a lot of chemistry. Without that, there was no movie.
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