PREVIEW: Stillwater (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), Camille Cottin (Allied), Lilou Siauvaud (film debut), Deanna Dunagan (The Visit), Idir Azougli (Shéhérazade)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Tom McCarthy (Spotlight), director, writer, producer; Thomas Bidegain (Rust and Bone), Noé Debré (Dheepan) and Marcus Hinchey (Come Sunday), writers; Liza Chasin (Big Miracle), Steve Golin (The Revenant) and Jonathan King (On the Basis of Sex), producers; Mychael Danna (Life of Pi), composer; Masanobu Takayanagi (Silver Linings Playbook), cinematographer; Tom McArdle (Win Win), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Bill Baker (Damon), a blue-collar oil worker from Stillwater, Oklahoma, travels to Marseille, France when his teenage daughter Allison (Breslin), who has been studying abroad, is falsely arrested and charged with the murder of her friend and lover Lina. When he discovers that Allison has all but exhausted her legal options, Bill sets out to clear his daughter’s name by conducting his own investigation, but soon starts to wonder just how far he’ll go to protect her…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Matt Damon teams with filmmaker Tom McCarthy for a tough-as-nails crime thriller set on the seedy streets of Marseille, evoking powerful themes of American heroism in a foreign land, and also eerie parallels with the infamous Amanda Knox case.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 6TH AUGUST 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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