Eliza Scanlen is incomes reward for her main efficiency in one other lady director’s characteristic debut. She took residence an Australian Academy of Cinema and Tv Arts (AACTA) Award for Shannon Murphy’s “Babyteeth” a number of years again, and now she’s getting glowing critiques for “The Starling Woman,” Laurel Parmet’s first characteristic. Deadline reviews that Bleecker Road has nabbed North American rights to the coming-of-age drama following its world premiere at Sundance Movie Competition final month. A theatrical launch is deliberate for later this 12 months.
Penned by Parmet, “The Starling Woman” tells the story of 17-year-old Jem Starling (Eliza Scanlen), “who struggles to outline her place inside her fundamentalist Christian neighborhood in rural Kentucky. Even her biggest pleasure — the church dance group — is tempered by fear that her love of dance is definitely sinful, and he or she’s caught between a burgeoning consciousness of her personal sexuality and an instinctive resistance to her mother’s urging that the time has come to start courting. She finds respite from her confusion within the encouragement of her youth pastor Owen (Lewis Pullman), who’s likewise drawn to the blossoming Jem’s consideration,” the supply summarizes.
Scanlen’s different credit embrace “Little Girls” and “Sharp Objects.”
Later this month Bleecker Road will launch Frances O’Connor’s characteristic debut, “Emily.” Impressed by the lifetime of “Wuthering Heights” writer Emily Brontë, the pic is led by “Intercourse Schooling’s” Emma Mackey and hits theaters February 17.
Supply: Women And Hollywood
