PREVIEW: Nine Days (12A TBC)

WHO’S IN IT?

Winston Duke (Us), Zazie Beetz (The Harder They Fall), Bill Skarsgård (It), Benedict Wong (The Personal History of David Copperfield), Tony Hale (Love, Simon), David Rysdahl (That’s Not Us), Arianna Ortiz (Off the Menu), Geraldine Hughes (Gran Torino), Erika Vásquez (film debut), Perry Smith (Sunset Sunrise)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Edson Oda (film debut), director, writer; Jason Michael Berman (Burning Sands), Mette-Marie Kongsved (I Blame Society), Matthew Linder (The Birth of a Nation), Laura Tunstall (Get Duked!) and Datari Turner (Uncorked), producers; Antonio Pinto (City of God), composer; Wyatt Garfield (Ping Pong Summer), cinematographer; Jeff Betancourt (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) and Michael Taylor (The Farewell), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In a remote house in the middle of a desert landscape, Will (Duke) spends his days determining which souls get to be born on Earth, putting them through a nine-day course that will filter the best candidate to replace a life that is cut tragically short…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Like a more mature and contemplative version of Pixar’s Soul, this original drama brings out the best in its ensemble cast and the imaginative structure by debuting writer-director Edson Oda.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 17TH DECEMBER 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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