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First Trailer For NEON’s SHIRLEY Starring Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg and Logan Lerman Is Here – We Are Movie Geeks

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First Trailer For NEON’s SHIRLEY Starring Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg and Logan Lerman Is Here

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Special Jury Prize – Auteur Filmmaking at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, here’s your first look at NEON‘s SHIRLEY starring Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg and Logan Lerman.

The film will be available everywhere on June 5.

Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson is on the precipice of writing her masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds upends her meticulous routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship with her philandering husband. The middle-aged couple, prone to ruthless barbs and copious afternoon cocktails, begins to toy mercilessly with the naïve young couple at their door.

Elisabeth Moss starred earlier this year in THE INVISIBLE MAN, the box office hit and reboot of the classic monster movie, for Universal/Blumhouse and makes an appearance in the upcoming Wes Anderson film, THE FRENCH DISPATCH.

She will star in Taika Waititi’s NEXT GOAL WINS, opposite Michael Fassbender and Armie Hammer. Most recently, Moss starred in the Alex Ross Perry film HER SMELL, which she also produced, for which she was nominated for a Gotham Award and an Independent Spirit Award, as well as opposite Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish in THE KITCHEN, an adaptation of the DC/Vertigo crime comic book series of the same name.

SHIRLEY is directed by Josephine Decker and written by Sarah Gubbins.

Decker says of her film and main character:

Shirley Jackson was a wildly unorthodox human and storyteller. Encountering her work was like finding a map towards becoming the kind of artist I would like to be. Daring. Intimate. Structured yet dreamlike.

Shirley’s work rides on the skin between imagined and real, seducing with its oddness and humble cracks until you can’t tell if you’re looking up the stairwell or into your own mouth. I felt strongly that this film needed to feel like a Shirley Jackson story. Cinematographer Sturla Grovlen and I tried to build an ever-evolving visual language for the film that would feel both real and surreal. I remember Sturla saying at some point on the shoot, “Usually, as you go along, it becomes easier to make choices. You understand the film you are making, and then it becomes clearer what you need to do in each scene. This is the only film I have made where that is not the case. The rules are constantly changing.” This was one of the challenges of the film and also one of its thrills.

Sarah Gubbins wrote a fantastic script that inhabits many worlds: the world inside Shirley’s house so different from the world outside Shirley’s house; the world inside Shirley’s mind at times inextricable from the world outside it. The layers kept folding in upon themselves. The napkin dropped. The spoon became a fork became a ghost. We were constantly chasing the reality, and I think this is one of the things I find most special about our film. I deeply adore collaboration, and on this project, we let the mystery remain a mystery. I hope that this was true on all levels of the process- – the acting, the production design, the cinematography. We had to work on the edge of what we knew so the process could remain fresh and alive, as mysterious as Shirley’s mind.

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