Adrien Brody has certainly had a pretty diverse career in his time, choosing roles in films as varied as Peter Jackson’s King Kong, Wes Anderson’s fantastic The Darjeeling Limited, and of course, most notably, Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, for which he won his Best Actor Academy Award, in a year that saw him up against Daniel Day-Lewis, Michael Caine, Nicolas Cage, and Jack Nicholson.
He’ll next be taking the lead in Detachment, alongside a terrific supporting cast, and KinoGallery (via IMP Awards) have got a lovely new French poster for the film, which has been getting a great reception at the film festivals it’s been screened at so far.
Courtesy of Wikipedia,
“Detachment is a chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody). Henry’s method of imparting vital knowledge onto his temporary students is interrupted by the arrival of three women in his life.”
Starring alongside Brody will be Lucy Liu (Kill Bill: Vol.1), Christina Hendricks (Drive), Bryan Cranston (TV’s Breaking Bad), James Caan (The Godfather), Marcia Gay Harden (Miller’s Crossing), Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?), William Peterson (TV’s CSI), and Blythe Danner (Meet the Parents), which I’m sure you’ll agree sounds like a pretty great cast.
And not only that, but the film is directed by Tony Kaye, who brought us (as the poster proudly tells us) American History X, which earned Edward Norton his second Oscar nomination. Carl Lund has penned the script, with which he makes both his writing and producing debut, and everything points to be it being an absolutely fantastic debut for him.
The film has already taken a number of awards at the festivals it’s been touring, most recently winning the Best Artistic Contribution Award at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, and I’m really looking forward to seeing it. This new poster definitely has an artistic feel to it, supporting its most recent award, with a wonderful photo of Brody deep in thought before a chalk board.
America is due to get this in February next year, but we here in the UK may have a little longer to wait, with no release date currently scheduled. Hopefully it will just be a matter of time though, because Brody is a terrific actor, and this project sounds like it’s going to be a film to really look forward to next year. Without further ado, here’s the beautiful new French poster for the film. As usual, click to enlarge.
