Co-productions are a nice way of uniting actors I wouldn’t expect were ever in the same room. The two starts in question did both appear in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, albeit separate segments by a director with bad habits of playing too clever by half. My thanks to Ursula Meier, then, for casting Léa Seydoux and Bill Murray in her detective film The Quiet Land, which will begin shooting in Alberta, Canada (doubling as Montana) next fall. She also calls the project a love story, which might give the notion of unexpected pairings a deeper, more eyebrow-raising meaning. [Variety]
Speaking to Variety days before the casting announcement, Meier revealed The Quiet Land (currently being presented at Venice’s Gap-Financing Market) is influenced by Swiss police photographer Arnold Odermatt, “who over a career spanning more than 40 years documented car accidents in striking, black-and-white analog photography,” and in looking at these photos and imagining the “script of the crash,” the writer-director has fashioned a plot with shades of Blow-up and Memento. Montana Highway Patrolman Connor McCluskey (presumably Murray) is dismissed on the basis of a medical evaluation while investigating two fatal crashes, and, fearing foul play, seeks to protect an elder woman in the area, and from this Meier hopes to “go very deep into the love story.”
Seydoux’s exact role isn’t divulged, though The Quiet Land is a seemingly expansive project: it’s also shooting in Switzerland, and Meier spares no ambition in calling it a “police investigation, a love story and above all, a highly personal emotional journey to the self. A meditation on what remains of us when we’re gone.” The film should at least look and move sufficiently: Claire Denis’ once-regular DP Agnès Godard (so: someone responsible for a number of the greatest-looking films of the last 40 years) and Leos Carax’s longtime editor Nelly Quettier are aboard the project.
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