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The Sea
Ciaran Hinds is a bit of a fave here at Female First and he will be back on the big screen this September with new movie The Sea.
The movie is a big screen adaptation of the novel by John Banville, he has penned the screenplay for the film, and sees Stephen Brown in the director's chair.
The Sea marks the feature film debut for Brown as he makes the transition from short projects.
And we have the brand new trailer for the film for you to take a look at:
Ciarán Hinds leads an all star cast as Charlotte Rampling, Bonnie Wright, Natascha McElhone, Rufus Sewell and Sinead Cusack are all on board.
Grieving after the death of his wife, art historian Max Morden (Hinds) returns to the sleepy seaside resort where he spent summers as a child.
Max lodges at a boarding house he once frequented, where frosty proprietor Miss Vavasour (Rampling), and eccentric resident Blunden (Karl Johnson), now reside. Before long - and despite protestations from his daughter Clare (Ruth Bradley) - Max revisits the ghosts of his past.
Max's mind returns to an idyllic summer in 1955 when, as a child, he encountered the Grace family. Carlo (Rufus Sewell) and Connie (Natascha McElhone) were unlike any adults he had met before: nonchalant, bohemian and filled with worldly grace and candour.
Young Max (Matthew Dillon) befriends the young Grace twins, Chloe (Missy Keating) and Myles (Padhraig Parkinson), and his fascination for this unconventional clan transforms into intimacy and love. Meanwhile, the children's young nanny Rose (Bonnie Wright), an outsider like Max, regards the Grace's new surrogate with quiet suspicion.
While Max attempts to deal with the loss of his wife, and recalls moments with his departed partner Anna (Sinéad Cusack), he also confronts a distant trauma from the past.
The Sea is a haunting, uplifting, meditation on the human condition - at times elegiac, poetic, and nostalgic. A story of memory, love, loss, regret... and the persistent possibility of rebirth.
The Sea is released in September.
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