For those who might not have caught wind of the news this past Monday, we finally have a new film project by auteur American indie Rome-based auteur Jonas Carpignano. After completing his trilogy which began with 2015’s Mediterranea moving into 2017’s A Ciambra (read review) and 2021’s A Chiara, he is set to adapt a thriller suspense novel published back in 2017 and Tessa Thompson is attached for the lead. Deadline reports that A Separation (obviously not a remake of Asghar Farhadi’s 2011 sublime divorce drama), will be shot in southern Greece and produced by Linden Productions’ Riva Marker with Viva Maude’s Kishori Rajan and Greta Caruso, and Faliro House’s Christos V. Konstantakopoulos. Anonymous Content’s David Levine will exec produce. The project will work with themes of ambiguity, constructed identity and emotional detachment.
Based on the novel by Katie Kitamura, this is about a young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it’s time for them to separate. For the moment it’s a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly agrees to go look for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart, she’s not even sure if she wants to find him. As her search comes to a shocking breaking point, she discovers she understands less than she thought she did about her relationship and the man she used to love.
