Little Men: Poster and Trailer!
Monday, May 16, 2016 at 9:43AM Manuel here. One of the films we're most excited about this summer here at TFE is Ira Sachs' Little Men. His last film Love is Strange was excellent. And think of how great his three new adult leads are.
Poster, trailer, and more after the jump...
I mean, Jennifer Ehle is definitely in the "she really should get more work given how amazing she is in small roles" (see Zero Dark Thirty, Contagion, A Little Chaos) and thankfully 2016 looks like it might give us more reasons to champion her. Sundance audiences got to see her in The Fundamentals of Caring which was picked up by Netflix and will presumably be released sometime this year, while A Quiet Passion, the Terence Davies/Emily Dickinson project where Ehle plays the poet's sister and which played Berlin last year, just sold wide at Cannes so more people around the world can expect to see her wittily banter with Cynthia Nixon in gorgeously lit interiors.
Greg Kinnear, for his part, remains an always welcome presence. Funny that he never got the leading man career many of us thought he could have. Instead, he's become a solid anchoring presence (I particularly enjoyed his Joe Biden in HBO's Confirmation, while I still look wistfully back on his Oscar-nominated turn in As Good as it Gets and his SAG-winning work in Little Miss Sunshine). Later this year we'll see him in Phil, his directorial debut.
And then there's Paulina García who you'll remember won the Silver Bear for Best Actress back in 2013 for her wonderful work in Gloria. It's so great to see her rewarded with more work afterwards. She was in Netflix's Narcos this past season, and alongside her work in Little Men we may get to see her in the Chilean film Much Ado About Nothing which is not a Shakespeare adaptation but a hit-and-run drama based on a real-life case.
Check out the trailer for Little Men and whet your appetite for this New York-set drama which also stars Alfred Molina and features two young newcomers that shoulder much of the film:
Reader Comments (9)
Hell yes Pauline Garcia!
Hated Love is Strange AND Keep the Lights On but still looking forward to this. Love the cast and the plot sounds intriguing. (Not gonna watch the trailer though.)
I liked Keep the Lights On, but I did not connect with Love is Strange. I liked the performances, and I wanted to love it, but it did not elicit the pathos.
Paulina Garcia will always get me to see a movie. Gloria singing alone in her car is one of my favorite movie moments in recent years.
@Jake D
Oh my god, thank you! Both of them such ponderous films with the tritest dialogue imaginable. And Keep the Lights on was especially badly acted/directed.
And yet, I can't help but be excited for anything featuring Jennifer Ehle *and* Paulina Garcia. So I can't wait for this.
Hated Keep the Lights On, loved Love is Strange. The trailer doesn't really present a story that I'm very interested in so I'm a Maybe So...
Clearly not that Louisa May Alcott adaptation I've been clamoring for...
Evan - Amen
Haven't seen Keep the Lights On. I thought Love is Strange was beautiful, though.