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Pawel Pawlikowski’s ‘The Island,’ Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara, Starts Filming in March/April

January 3, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

We’re getting a new film from Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, this one starring real-life couple Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara. Exciting.

The working title is “The Island”, and now a production note claims it’s set to shoot this Spring. I would think that they’ll wait it out for a splashy Cannes 2024 premiere, but who knows.

Described as a drama/thriller, the film is loosely based on real events. I wouldn’t expect this one until 2024. Mara and Phoenix will play an American couple in the 1930s who escape to their own private island and live off the land. However, a millionaire disrupts their tranquil lifestyle, as he passes by on his yacht, turning the couple into a tabloid sensation. Even worse, a self-styled Countess appears with two lovers and plans to build a luxury hotel on the island.

I’m guessing this film won’t be shot in black and white. Pawlikowski’s last two films, “Ida” and “Cold War,” were critically-acclaimed sensations. There’s a lot of high expectations for this one.

Before his last two critical hits, Pawlikowski had directed the wonderful 2004 coming-of-age romance “My Summer of Love,” but followed that one up with a major faux-pas that some have completely forgotten, 2011’s atrocious “The Woman in the Fifth” starring Ethan Hawke and Kristen Scott-Thomas.

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