Actor Gael Garcia Bernal attends the Amour premiere. The actor stars in No, which is part of the Directors’ Fortnight at the festival.
Getty ImagesThe ominous trailer for The Loneliest Planet, a character drama co-starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Hani Furstenberg, has debuted online.
Bernal and Furstenberg portray an engaged couple who encounter violence while backpacking through the visually people-less terrain of the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia; one particular incident involving a trio of peasants and an automatic weapon dramatically changes the dynamic of their relationship. (Note the trailer’s tagline: “What would you do if the one you love became a stranger?” Also, the gunshot sounds.)
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The film, which was acquired by Sundance Selects and premiered at this year’s Locarno Film Festival in Italy, is the second effort from Russian-American filmmaker Julia Loktev following 2006’s well-received Day Night Day Night.
In a THR review, film critic Neil Young called Loneliest Planet “patience-testing” but said it had “some limited commercial prospects thanks to the presence of Mexico’s international art-house heartthrob Gael Garcia Bernal in one of the small handful of speaking parts. Not that there’s very much dialogue in this steadily taxing analysis of a relationship imperilled by communication breakdowns.”
The movie hits theaters in limited release Aug. 24.
Watch the trailter below.
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