Three years in the past, Alexander Skarsgård starred in director Robert Eggers’ epic interval motion drama The Northman, which Eggers wrote with Icelandic poet, novelist, lyricist, and screenwriter Sjón. Now, Selection reviews that Skarsgård and Sjón have reteamed for the gothic horror film The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Palms, which marks the English-language debut of director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén.
Synopsis
Mesén made her characteristic debut with the 2021 fantasy drama Clara Sola, which was filmed in Costa Rica and offered in Spanish. She has written the screenplay for The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Palms with Sjón, crafting the story of a British widower within the Eighteen Eighties Pacific Northwest, who hires a Native American governess, educated in a Christian mission college, to show his two daughters. Whereas making ready the eldest for an organized marriage, a power inside her begins to awaken, threatening every part she has been taught.
Skarsgård performs the widower and is joined within the forged by Darla Contois (Little Hen) because the governess and Bronte Carmichael (Christopher Robin) and Lily La Torre (Run Rabbit Run) as the 2 daughters. Forrest Goodluck (Methods to Blow Up a Pipeline) and Pernilla August (The Finest Intentions) spherical out the forged.
Intimate Character Work and Magic Realism
Mesén offered the next assertion: “I feel incredibly lucky to work with a cast who dive into their roles with such generosity, playfulness, and openness. Collaborating with such a talented group of people from all around the world has been a privilege. Darla embodies Isabel with visceral emotional depth, and Alexander portrays the father with a truth and volatility that ground the story. I can’t wait for the film to reach audiences!” The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Palms is claimed to deepen the filmmaker’s “signature mix of intimate character work and magic realism, increasing it right into a darker, extra haunting interval world.“
Sjón stated, “As somebody who’s labored with fantasy and folks tales in novels, songs and screenplays, I used to be instantly fascinated by Nathalie’s command of bringing to the display screen one thing as tough because the shifting borders between the internal and outer actuality of her movie’s protagonist.“
The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Palms is presently in manufacturing, filming in Belfast in Northern Eire. Does this gothic horror undertaking sound fascinating to you? Tell us by leaving a remark beneath.
