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Cannes Croisette: Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island

DiCaprio sees red and I think Paramount Pictures is seeing green. Well located at the end of the pier in front of the Carlton rests this great billboard. This is based on the novel “Shutter Island” by Dennis Lehane and adapted by Laeta Kalogridis…

Eric Lavallée

Published on May 11, 2009

DiCaprio sees red and I think Warner Bros. is seeing green. Well located at the end of the pier in front of the Carlton rests this great billboard. This is based on the novel “Shutter Island” by Dennis Lehane and adapted by Laeta Kalogridis, the atmospheric psychological thriller set in a 1950s asylum for the criminally insane. It’s 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Shutter Island’s Ashecliffe Hospital. He’d been gunning for an assignment on the island for reasons of his own — but before long he wonders whether he hasn’t been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).