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Cannes Market Musts: Jamie Thraves’s Cry of the Owl

After presenting it in a trio of markets, Myriad Pictures is now showing off the goods – a 20-minute reel for the adaptation of the 1962 novel by Patricia Highsmith. Cry of the Owl sees Julia Stiles playing a woman who falls in love with her stalker. Paddy Considine will play the man who moves to Stiles’ suburban town and begins spying on her. Speedman will play her jilted ex, who complicates matters further when he plots revenge against her. This is Jamie Thraves directorial debut.

Cry of the Owl

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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).

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