We’ve seen some great things over the past few months for director Tony Kaye’s upcoming film, Detachment, led by Adrien Brody. A beautiful international poster arrived back in November with Brody looking pensive before a chalk board, followed by a great international trailer just before Christmas.

We’ve now got another terrific new trailer to share with you, courtesy of Apple via The Playlist, ahead of the film’s release on iTunes in the US next month before a limited theatrical release in March.

“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.”

Along with Brody, the film has a terrific cast that includes 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), Blythe Danner (Meet the Parents), and Isiah Whitlock, Jr. (TV’s The Wire). Essentially, a very talented group of people, and as the trailer notes, we’ll be introduced to the acting talents of young Sami Gayle (TV’s Blue Bloods), who makes her feature debut in this.

This new trailer gives an even more intimate look at the film than the one we saw before Christmas, and it definitely looks like something to look forward to. The film has spent the past year touring festivals, taking the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival as well as a host of others elsewhere, and I can’t wait to see how it all unfolds. Kaye is best known for his tremendous debut on American History X, and this looks like it could be the film to revitalise his career, directing from what should be a fantastic debut for screenwriter Carl Lund.

There’s still no word yet on a UK release, but hopefully we can look forward to seeing it arrive on our shores soon, either through a platform like iTunes in the US or a theatrical release (I’m hoping we’ll be treated to the latter too, but sadly I think it’s a bit of wishful thinking), ahead of a physical release hopefully later in the year. Until then, here’s the wonderful new trailer to enjoy.

We got our first look at Adrien Brody’s next film, Detachment, when an international poster surfaced back in November, which instantly conjured up a sort of restrained beauty with a simple photograph of Brody deep in thought before a chalkboard.

A new French trailer for the film has been released online, via The Playlist, and it lives up to the beauty of the poster and a lot more too. Tony Kaye, director of American History X, is behind the camera for this, directing from Carl Lund’s debut script.

“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.”

Along with Brody, the film has a terrific cast that includes 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), Blythe Danner (Meet the Parents), and Isiah Whitlock, Jr. (TV’s The Wire). Essentially, a very talented group of people.

The film has spent the past year touring festivals, taking the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival as well as a host of others elsewhere, and I’m really looking forward to seeing what Kaye and Brody have made together. The direction in this new trailer looks very impressive, and it’s not often that we get to see inside the walls of a classroom like this.

Detachment doesn’t yet have a UK release date scheduled, but with a bit of luck, we’ll be seeing it early next year. The US should be seeing the film in the spring with a VoD/theatrical release planned, so hopefully we’ll see it in at least one form (and hopefully on the big screen) sometime in the new year. Until then, here’s the wonderful new French trailer for the film. Enjoy.

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.

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“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.

Adrien Body (Predators, The Pianist) has officially signed on to star in The Detachment.

The film, which is set up at Paper Street Films, will be directed by Tony Kaye (American History X), and exec produced by Greg Shapiro and Peter Sterling.

Brody, who’s co-stars will include Christina Hendricks (Middle Men), Blythe Danner (The Last Kiss), James Caan (The Godfather) and Marcia Gay Harden (Whip It), will portray Henry Barthes, a high school teacher.

Synopsis: The Detachment will depict three weeks in the lives of high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of Henry Barthes (Brody).

The Detachment is currently filming on location in Long Island and Queens. ICM will handle the distribution rights for North America.

Variety reported this one.

Tony Kaye became well known in the 90s for his direction of some amazing adverts and music videos and, as is still common practise in Hollywood, he made the transition to the big screen soon after with his brutal take on Nazism in Los Angeles, American History X. 

Though the story of his exclusion from the editing process, and enmity for the finished film is well known, the fruits of Kaye’s labours were evident, and bountiful. Though he turned his back on Hollywood, he is making his return to films with Black Water Transit and two more films which he discusses in the video below.

If you’ve not seen American History X or his anti-abortion documentary Lake of Fire they are well worth seeking out as Kaye’s style is unrelenting and if his next two films, Steps and Zero Point, live up to the standard Kaye has set they’ll be two names to look out for next year.