#75. What Maisie Knew – Scott McGehee and David Siegel
Scott McGehee and David Siegel got their career starts at the festival with Suture (1993) followe by The Deep End (2001), but they haven’t been back in a good decade. With a higher profile project – an adaption of a Henry James novel starring Alexander Skarsgård, Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan with Onata Aprile (from Cassevetes’ Yellow) they have a valid reason to return. Filming on What Maisie Knew finished rather late in the year — so this is perhaps a weak prediction guess but a welcomed one when you consider producer Daniela Taplin Lundberg’s great relationship with the fest.
Gist: Scripted by Nancy Doyne and Carroll Cartwright, the film which is an adaptation of the Henry James novel is about Maisie, a six-year-old girl enmeshed in the bitter divorce of her mother (Moore), a rock and roll icon, and her father (Coogan), a charming but distracted art dealer. Skarsgård will play Moore’s new husband.
Producers: Daniela Taplin Lundberg (The Kids Are All Right), William Teitler and Charles Weinstock
(IONCINEMA.com Preview Page // IMDB Link)
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