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Watch Annette Bening And Ed Harris In First Trailer For Romantic Drama THE FACE OF LOVE

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How far would you go, for a second chance? How much would you risk to resurrect your first love?

That’s the question that confronts Nikki (Annette Bening). Her happily married life is shattered when her husband Garrett suddenly drowns during a Mexican vacation. As years pass and Nikki adjusts to raising their teenage daughter on her own, Nikki gradually comes to grips with her loss… or does she?

Watch the new trailer for THE FACE OF LOVE. The film opens March 7 (limited release).


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A chance visit to an art museum affords her the opportunity to see Tom ((Ed Harris), a local art teacher, frustrated painter—and the perfect double of Nikki’s beloved Garrett, now dead for five years. Aware of the dangers of tempting fate but unable to stop herself, Nikki pursues Tom, meets him, befriends him, and falls in love with him, never sharing the uncanny secret that drew them together. The long-since-divorced Tom discovers in Nikki a friend, lover and muse, as her devotion rekindles his passion for life and for his art.

For Nikki, this love is perfect, or as close-to-perfect as possible to the love she shared with her husband, save for her well-founded fears of what others in her life—her daughter Summer, her close friend and neighbor Roger (Robin Williams) — will say when they discover her secret… and it’s a secret that can’t stay hidden for long in a fast-moving relationship. Tom, oblivious to his uncanny resemblance, is quickly drawn closer to her. Nikki must confront the consequences of her extraordinary choice, even as she seeks to keep her charmed “second chance” alive. When the characters are forced to confront the unbelievable truth, the result is an explosive love story that pushes its heroine to the brink of sanity.

Unfolding with the simplicity of a timeless fable, but speaking with an unmistakably contemporary voice, Arie Posin’s FACE OF LOVE is the work of a gifted young storyteller grappling with the most fundamental questions—of love and loss—that life has to offer.

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Before the credits rolled, before the director said, “action!”, before the financing, or the cast, or the script was in place, FACE OF LOVE was born from a woman crossing the street.

“It was about five years after my father passed away,” recalls writer-director Arie Posin. “She came over one day and said—it’s almost word for word what Nikki says in the movie—‘You know, this funny thing happened to me today. I was walking across the street and I saw this man coming towards me who was a carbon copy of your father. I had my glasses in my hand, and I started to put them on and then I didn’t put them on.’

“And I asked why not, and she said, ‘I knew it wasn’t him. I knew it wasn’t your father, but I was shocked. I was standing in the middle of the street and to see this man coming towards me… it just felt so nice. It felt like it used to.’ And that moment stuck with me. I started thinking about it, dreaming about it, even. And that eventually led to this whole story. What if she had tried to find this man again? And what if they met? What would those conversations be like? And what would happen if they were to fall in love?”

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If there’s one tenet the story holds close to its heart, it’s the inseparability of love and loss. “I think it’s about loss,” reflects Bening, “and also at the same time, about what can unexpectedly happen that’s delightful and surprising and enlivening.  Sometimes as we’re hiding ourselves away, life suddenly offers something to us.  Sometimes we’re there and available to take it and sometimes we’re not, so I think it’s about all of those things.  It’s funny how things can be juxtaposed that don’t necessarily make sense, but that’s often how we experience our lives.  The most prosaic thing is up against the biggest thing, and both of those things can be happening at once. I think that’s part of what this story is about.”

Producer Julie Lynn adds: “One of the things that I love about what the movie is about is that even after you’re grown up, you’re not done growing.  You find new ways to fall in love with the people, some of whom you already love, some of whom may be new.  Or we’re still learning how to follow our muse and to do the thing that we’re excited about doing.  For Ed’s character Tom, it’s about painting; for us it might be about making films in a certain way. For someone else it might be pursuing something they’ve never thought to pursue before.  There’s this idea in our culture that once you reach maturation, you’re kind of done.  I feel, at its heart, that FACE OF LOVE is about not being done.  We still love, and we still grow, and we still hurt, and we still break through our boxes that contain us, and life is exciting all the way through.”

Photos: ©IFC Films

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