A wild left flip from her delicate, meditative characteristic debut, The Misplaced Daughter, this stylized thriller from Maggie Gyllenhaal is a pleasure experience by ’30s Chicago. At its heart is Jessie Buckley, a reimagined bride of Frankenstein in floaty silk clothes, shaggy fringe, leather-based jackets, and lace thigh-highs, paired with black, ink-stained lips; a frizzy bob; and an inscrutable smirk. Add Christian Bale because the monster, in pinstripe vests; a dapper Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard; and a vampy Penélope Cruz, and you’ve got a mind-melter assured to encourage a wealth of costumes come subsequent Halloween.
Sense & Sensibility (in theaters September 11)
Grace Snell, the considerate and completed costume designer behind The Memento, is accountable for the bonnets, empire-waisted robes, velvet coats, and embroidered muffs—glimpsed within the first images from the set—on this wistful replace on one in all Jane Austen’s best-loved novels. Following within the vaunted footsteps of Ang Lee’s rain-soaked 1995 model starring the great Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet, it’s helmed by Blue Jean’s Georgia Oakley, penned by novelist Diana Reid, and options an ensemble led by Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, Frank Dillane, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw. It’s poised to be a quieter, extra conventional and poetic interval piece than a lot of its showier rivals, actually, however needs to be all the higher for it.
The Different Bennett Sister (TBA)
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Austen fever continues with this barely extra various have a look at the prolific author’s world: a spirited adaptation of Janice Hadlow’s page-turner of the identical identify from The Energy’s Sarah Quintrell, which turns the highlight onto none aside from Satisfaction & Prejudice’s persistently ignored center sister, Mary Bennet (Bridgerton’s Ella Bruccoleri). Joined by Richard E. Grant, Indira Varma, Ruth Jones, and Tanya Reynolds, with The Girlfriend’s Laurie Davidson and The Wheel of Time’s Dónal Finn as potential suitors, it sees our heroine boldly forge her personal path in a society which seeks to relegate her to the sidelines. The costumes, in the meantime, are maybe slightly extra critical than in different Austen romps, however no much less opulent—assume riotously patterned, lace-trimmed coats; feathered hats; silk frocks; and heavy, Indian-inspired costume jewellery.
Satisfaction & Prejudice (TBA)
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