Film in Pictures: Nick Cassavetes’ Yellow

Fresh from the EFM, we have a couple of stills and a lengthy, wacky first synopsis for Yellow – it sounds so promising that I kind of regret where I placed the project in our Most Anticipated list — as Nick Cassavetes appears to have confected something that truly goes against the grain of his previous film items. Pictured below in the bathing cap we find Cassavetes’ wife — actress and screenwriter (this is her first writing cred) Heather Wahlquist, and below that we have Sienna Miller who takes on the starring role of Xanne. Ben Foster who was kick ass in Cassavetes’ Alpha Dog also toplines. Though we haven’t read the screenplay, we do know that this will be jumping around different eras. Read the synopsis after the jump.

Mary (Heather Wahlquist) has problems. She has a difficult time feeling things, and swallowing twenty Vicodin a day doesn’t help. She’s seeing a psychiatrist for the disconnect daydreams she keeps having, and her younger sister with Tourette’s hates her. When she loses her job after sleeping with one of the fathers on Parent’s Night, Mary decides to go home. And that’s when the fun really starts. The dreams that seemed so random now start to take real shape as we understand where she came from. From young and in love, to drug dealing on the road, to her father’s slow, painful death, from questions of love and incest to her older sister’s descent into insanity, the secret that destroyed Mary’s entire family reveals itself on her journey back home, along with her ultimate responsibility for it. Busby Berkeley, Cirque du Soleil, sideshow freaks and human livestock all make an appearance in this hallucinogenic tale of love and comeuppance.