EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first footage from Casey Affleck‘s Venice Film Festival Competition drama, Company, starring Nick Nolte, Ben Mendelsohn, Adelaide Clemens, Scoot McNairy, Emily Alyn Lind, and Caylee Cowan.
The film also introduces Affleck’s son Atticus (who features in the opening footage of the clip above) for the first time on screen and marks the second feature for his son Indiana.
Described as “a meditation on grief, vengeance, forgiveness, and the quiet acts of compassion that can heal even the deepest wounds”, the gothic drama is set over a single night in 1975 when a wintry holiday gathering is interrupted by a mysterious woman who recounts a tale from decades before.
The full synopsis reads: “On a winter night in 1975, a mysterious woman named Evelyn arrives uninvited at a holiday gathering and tells the story of Tom, an aging hermit who rescues a stranded actress during a Colorado blizzard in 1953. To pass the night, the actress recounts an older tale of a farming couple who take in a troubled young drifter as a series of grisly murders spreads fear across the frontier.”
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Oscar winner Affleck co-wrote the script with Ron Hansen. Producers include Steven Schneider and Roy Lee via Spooky Features, Catherine Caylee Cowan, Dan Lawler, Affleck, Sean Patrick O’Reilly, K. Asher Levin, Enzo Marc, and Anthony Katagas. Executive producers include Ben Ross via Image Nation Studios, Rami Yasin for Spooky Pictures, Ronnie Exley and Jeremy Ross via Rabbits Black, Ron McLeod, Dr. Terence Chan, Brian Meng, and Maria Breese for 3:33 Creative Productions, and Jonathan Miller.
It has been seven years since Affleck’s sophomore directorial outing, Light Of My Life.
