Will Conroy, now a summer visitor but previously a resident, has co-written a film called “Transsiberian” with Brad Anderson, which recently played at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was shot in Lithuania on a $15 million budget. Brad, a frequest visitor to the Nantucket Film Festival, also directed the film starring Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Kate Mara, Eduardo Noriega, Thomas Kretschmann, and Ben Kingsley.
Will wrote me from his home in Arizona to tell me about it, and that “he’s still hoping the movie will show at this year’s Nantucket Film Festival”, ending with “I miss Nantucket terribly”.
USA Today said of “Transsiberian”:
“The film is a marital drama meets police thriller and has what every good train ride should: lust, murder, Russian cops, a lot of vodka. And then some: a bag full of heroin, windows nailed shut, a tough female Russian conductor, a train wreck with lives hanging in the balance.”
“Cast members Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer and Eduardo Noriega were on hand at the sold-out Eccles auditorium at the Park City High School. Harrelson and Mortimer play a Midwestern couple traveling back from a religious mission in China, struggling to keep their marriage together at the point when a mysterious Spaniard (Noriega) and his 20-year-old girlfriend (Kate Mara) climb aboard.”
From Variety:
“The long sidelined subgenre centered on mysterious doings aboard exotic trains is put back on the tracks in “Transsiberian,” an engagingly up-to-date melodrama steeped in local color and steered by a treacherous sense of morality. Stalwart indie helmer Brad Anderson spreads his wings considerably here by moving further into action and genre territory than he ever has before with a film that will likely achieve more theatrical traction internationally than in the U.S. but looks promising everywhere at tube and home viewing destinations down the line.”
Read the full review here.
Sundance post party pictures here. On hand were Woody Harrelson, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Kata Mara, Perez Hilton, Jason Patric, and Paris Hilton and her sister Nicky.
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