Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren and two-time Golden Globe-winner Donald Sutherland star in the adventurous drama The Leisure Seeker, debuting on DVD and digital July 10 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Adapted from the bestselling novel by Michael Zadoorian, Italian director Paolo Virzì’s (Like Crazy) first English language film tells the story of John (Sutherland) and Ella Spencer (Mirren) as they embark on one last road trip from Boston to the Hemingway House in the Florida Keys in their trusty recreational vehicle. The Leisure Seeker also stars Christian McKay (Florence Foster Jenkins) and Janel Moloney (“The West Wing”).
The DVD release of The Leisure Seeker includes two exclusive featurettes. Fans will spend an evening with acting icons Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland as they reflect on their craft, their complex roles and their on-screen collaboration in a lively and candid Q&A “In Conversation with Helen Mirren & Donald Sutherland.” “The Making...
The DVD release of The Leisure Seeker includes two exclusive featurettes. Fans will spend an evening with acting icons Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland as they reflect on their craft, their complex roles and their on-screen collaboration in a lively and candid Q&A “In Conversation with Helen Mirren & Donald Sutherland.” “The Making...
- 7/11/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland play lovable oldsters on a road trip, with soppy, insufferable results
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland take to the road in this soppy bittersweet heart-sinker – depressing in various intentional and unintentional ways. Lovably impulsive oldsters Ella and John infuriate their uptight children (played by Christian McKay and Janel Moloney) by heading off in their cranky old Winnebago for a last road trip in the sunset of their lives, despite their frailties. They are cheerful, gutsy, secretly scared of the future and by imminent revelations about their shared past.
It is an Italian production, directed by Paolo Virzì and co-written by Stephen Amidon, adapting the novel by Michael Zadoorian.
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland take to the road in this soppy bittersweet heart-sinker – depressing in various intentional and unintentional ways. Lovably impulsive oldsters Ella and John infuriate their uptight children (played by Christian McKay and Janel Moloney) by heading off in their cranky old Winnebago for a last road trip in the sunset of their lives, despite their frailties. They are cheerful, gutsy, secretly scared of the future and by imminent revelations about their shared past.
It is an Italian production, directed by Paolo Virzì and co-written by Stephen Amidon, adapting the novel by Michael Zadoorian.
- 4/19/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – Helen Mirren keeps establishing herself as an international treasure with each new role. She is the prime motivator in the new film “The Leisure Seeker,” about a retired couple taking one last spin in their Rv, which takes its nickname from the title of the film. Along the way secrets are revealed and the devastation of dementia is exposed, but the story never gets too serious or heavy handed.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Donald Sutherland portrays the dementia-riddled husband in the couple, and he delivers a spot-on interpretation of the “needle skip” nature of the disease. The film is adapted by four screenwriters, including director Paolo Virzi (“Like Crazy”), from a novel by Michael Zadoorian. The story is the star, and it is rendered precisely by Virzi, with even the supporting roles having interesting significance… kudos to the casting of Janel Moloney and Christian McKay as their nervous adult children. The themes of aging,...
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Donald Sutherland portrays the dementia-riddled husband in the couple, and he delivers a spot-on interpretation of the “needle skip” nature of the disease. The film is adapted by four screenwriters, including director Paolo Virzi (“Like Crazy”), from a novel by Michael Zadoorian. The story is the star, and it is rendered precisely by Virzi, with even the supporting roles having interesting significance… kudos to the casting of Janel Moloney and Christian McKay as their nervous adult children. The themes of aging,...
- 3/11/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland can do anything – except, perhaps, save this sentimental drool bucket of senior cinema. It's not their fault: The Leisure Seeker is a road movie that lets its formidable stars down by shamelessly pandering and following a predictable path to been-there-seen-that.
In his first English-language feature, Italian director Paolo Virzì (Human Capital) shows he has his heart in the right place – it's just his knack for pacing, surprise and blunt truth that's M.I.A. here. Mirren plays Ella Spencer, a steel magnolia who decides it's time to get herself and her husband,...
In his first English-language feature, Italian director Paolo Virzì (Human Capital) shows he has his heart in the right place – it's just his knack for pacing, surprise and blunt truth that's M.I.A. here. Mirren plays Ella Spencer, a steel magnolia who decides it's time to get herself and her husband,...
- 3/9/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Paolo Virzì on Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland as Ella and John Spencer: "It is a love story because we were telling the story of two persons who shared an entire lifetime." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the final installment of my conversation at the St Regis in New York with Paolo Virzi on The Leisure Seeker, the director and co-screenwriter (with Stephen Amidon, Francesca Archibugi and Francesco Piccolo), spoke about adapting the book by Michael Zadoorian. He praised the work of production designer Richard A Wright, and we discussed Carole King's It's Too Late (Baby), Chet Baker's silver lining, jealousy and the monologue by Gretta Conroy of The Dead in James Joyce's The Dubliners, filming the Hemingway cats, and the casting of non-professional actors including his on-set translator Lilia Blouin.
The film stars Helen Mirren who will be honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center...
In the final installment of my conversation at the St Regis in New York with Paolo Virzi on The Leisure Seeker, the director and co-screenwriter (with Stephen Amidon, Francesca Archibugi and Francesco Piccolo), spoke about adapting the book by Michael Zadoorian. He praised the work of production designer Richard A Wright, and we discussed Carole King's It's Too Late (Baby), Chet Baker's silver lining, jealousy and the monologue by Gretta Conroy of The Dead in James Joyce's The Dubliners, filming the Hemingway cats, and the casting of non-professional actors including his on-set translator Lilia Blouin.
The film stars Helen Mirren who will be honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center...
- 3/9/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Author: Zehra Phelan
Universal Pictures has graced hump day with a heartfelt trailer for the upcoming The Leisure Seeker starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland in the twilight of their life.
Based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Michael Zadoorian, the film is directed by Paolo Virzi and stars Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Christian Mckay, Janel Moloney, Dana Ivey and Dick Gregory.
The Leisure Seeker is released in the UK on May 4th 2018
The Leisure Seeker Official Synopsis
The Leisure Seeker explores the American “on the road” genre, updated by the ironic and compassionate poetry of Paolo Virzì and rendered even more extraordinary by the vitality of two exceptional stars, Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, in the roles of Ella and John, a couple on the run in their old camper.
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Universal Pictures has graced hump day with a heartfelt trailer for the upcoming The Leisure Seeker starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland in the twilight of their life.
Based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Michael Zadoorian, the film is directed by Paolo Virzi and stars Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Christian Mckay, Janel Moloney, Dana Ivey and Dick Gregory.
The Leisure Seeker is released in the UK on May 4th 2018
The Leisure Seeker Official Synopsis
The Leisure Seeker explores the American “on the road” genre, updated by the ironic and compassionate poetry of Paolo Virzì and rendered even more extraordinary by the vitality of two exceptional stars, Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, in the roles of Ella and John, a couple on the run in their old camper.
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- 1/17/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Paolo Virzì with Anne-Katrin Titze at the St. Regis: "For me, Donald Sutherland is many things. He is Casanova and the wonderful English professor in Animal House ..." Photo: Lilia Blouin
In 2014, Paolo Virzì's Human Capital (Il Capitale Umano), starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino, and Fabrizio Gifuni was Italy's Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film. Paolo's latest, The Leisure Seeker, his first film in English, stars Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland as a couple on the road, unlike Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider. The screenplay by Stephen Amidon, Francesca Archibugi, Francesco Piccolo, and Virzì is based on the novel by Michael Zadoorian.
Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren are John and Ella Spencer
At the St. Regis hotel in New York, our conversation takes us to how Donald Sutherland is many things (from Federico Fellini's Casanova to Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now...
In 2014, Paolo Virzì's Human Capital (Il Capitale Umano), starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino, and Fabrizio Gifuni was Italy's Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film. Paolo's latest, The Leisure Seeker, his first film in English, stars Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland as a couple on the road, unlike Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider. The screenplay by Stephen Amidon, Francesca Archibugi, Francesco Piccolo, and Virzì is based on the novel by Michael Zadoorian.
Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren are John and Ella Spencer
At the St. Regis hotel in New York, our conversation takes us to how Donald Sutherland is many things (from Federico Fellini's Casanova to Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now...
- 1/13/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Leisure Seeker Sony Pictures Classics Director: Paolo Virzi Screenwriter: Stephen Amidon, Francesca Archibugi, Francesto Piccolo, Paolo Virzi based on Michael Zadoorian’s book Cast: Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland, Christian McKay, Janel Moloney, Dana Ivey, Dick Gregory Screened at: Critics’ DVD, NYC, 11/24/17 Opens: In December for awards consideration. January 18, 2018 Maurice Chevalier once said […]
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- 12/8/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
The Post and The Leisure Seeker both get new trailers today!The Post and The Leisure Seeker both get new trailers today!Amanda Wood11/9/2017 4:11:00 Pm
Today we’ve got two new trailers for movies that your parents will definitely love, and that you will probably also love, come to think of it.
There is a movie that exists in our very fortunate plane of existence that stars Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks and was directed by Steven Spielberg. It’s called The Post, and it’s a real thing that exists and is coming to a theatre near you very soon. It tells the true story of the first female editor of the Washington Post and the government cover-up she fought to uncover. Sarah Paulson, Alison Brie, and Bob Odenkirk round out this all-star cast. See the first trailer now, and catch The Post in Cineplex theatres January 12th.
Today we’ve got two new trailers for movies that your parents will definitely love, and that you will probably also love, come to think of it.
There is a movie that exists in our very fortunate plane of existence that stars Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks and was directed by Steven Spielberg. It’s called The Post, and it’s a real thing that exists and is coming to a theatre near you very soon. It tells the true story of the first female editor of the Washington Post and the government cover-up she fought to uncover. Sarah Paulson, Alison Brie, and Bob Odenkirk round out this all-star cast. See the first trailer now, and catch The Post in Cineplex theatres January 12th.
- 11/9/2017
- by Amanda Wood
- Cineplex
Based upon the novel of the same name by Michael Zadoorian, The Leisure Seeker stars Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland as a runaway couple seeking to escape from their overbearing children and doctors by going on an unforgettable cross-country journey in the faithful old Rv they call The Leisure Seeker. Ella (Mirren) is dying of cancer while John (Sutherland) is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and... Read More...
- 9/30/2017
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
‘The Leisure Seeker’ Star Donald Sutherland: “We Owe An Awful Lot To Sony Classics” – Toronto Studio
Paolo Virzì came to the Toronto Film Festival having had a fantasy come true—with The Leisure Seeker, his English-language debut, playing to enthusiastic houses, the director came by the Deadline studio with the two stars he'd wanted from the get-go: Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, who both praised Sony Classics for committing to the film in advance of its recent premiere in Venice. Adapted from the 2009 book by American author Michael Zadoorian, and described by…...
- 9/15/2017
- Deadline
Helen Mirren is upbeat alongside Donald Sutherland in The Hollywood Reporter's exclusive clip of The Leisure Seeker.
Mirren stars in the dramedy as Ella, who is dying of cancer, opposite Sutherland as John, a retired professor who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Rather than spending their last days in a nursing home or a hospital bed, they dust off their titular vintage Rv for a final road trip from Boston to Key West.
The Sony Pictures Classics release is based on Michael Zadoorian's 2009 novel, and marks the English-language debut of Italian director Paolo Virzi (Like Crazy). It made its...
Mirren stars in the dramedy as Ella, who is dying of cancer, opposite Sutherland as John, a retired professor who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Rather than spending their last days in a nursing home or a hospital bed, they dust off their titular vintage Rv for a final road trip from Boston to Key West.
The Sony Pictures Classics release is based on Michael Zadoorian's 2009 novel, and marks the English-language debut of Italian director Paolo Virzi (Like Crazy). It made its...
- 9/6/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Spc confirms deal for Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland road movie.
Sony Pictures Classics confirmed on Thursday it has acquired multiple rights from CAA and Bac Films to Paolo Virzì’s follow-up to his acclaimed Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection Like Crazy.
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland star in the film, shooting now, as a couple on a cross-country journey in their vintage camper fleeing the pressures of doctors and children.
Spc has acquirred The Leisure Seeker for the Us, Latin America, Asia excluding Japan, Eastern Europe, Portugal and South Africa.
The film marks Virzì’s first film shot entirely in the Us. Francesca Archibugi, Francesco Piccolo, Stephen Amidon, and Virzì adapted the screenplay inspired by the novel of the same name by Michael Zadoorian.
“The Leisure Seeker looks to be a major 2017 find,” said the Spc hierarchy. “This is a rich story that promises career-best performances from Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland. We look forward...
Sony Pictures Classics confirmed on Thursday it has acquired multiple rights from CAA and Bac Films to Paolo Virzì’s follow-up to his acclaimed Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection Like Crazy.
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland star in the film, shooting now, as a couple on a cross-country journey in their vintage camper fleeing the pressures of doctors and children.
Spc has acquirred The Leisure Seeker for the Us, Latin America, Asia excluding Japan, Eastern Europe, Portugal and South Africa.
The film marks Virzì’s first film shot entirely in the Us. Francesca Archibugi, Francesco Piccolo, Stephen Amidon, and Virzì adapted the screenplay inspired by the novel of the same name by Michael Zadoorian.
“The Leisure Seeker looks to be a major 2017 find,” said the Spc hierarchy. “This is a rich story that promises career-best performances from Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland. We look forward...
- 9/22/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Sony Pictures Classics confirmed on Thursday it has acquired multiple rights from CAA and Bac Films to Paolo Virzì’s follow-up to his acclaimed Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection Like Crazy.
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland star in the film, shooting now, as a couple on a cross-country journey in their vintage camper fleeing the pressures of doctors and children.
Spc has acquirred The Leisure Seeker for the Us, Latin America, Asia excluding Japan, Eastern Europe, Portugal and South Africa.
The film marks Virzì’s first film shot entirely in the Us. Francesca Archibugi, Francesco Piccolo, Stephen Amidon, and Virzì adapted the screenplay inspired by the novel of the same name by Michael Zadoorian.
“The Leisure Seeker looks to be a major 2017 find,” said the Spc hierarchy. “This is a rich story that promises career-best performances from Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland. We look forward to bringing Paolo Virzi’s film to audiences in the United States and around...
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland star in the film, shooting now, as a couple on a cross-country journey in their vintage camper fleeing the pressures of doctors and children.
Spc has acquirred The Leisure Seeker for the Us, Latin America, Asia excluding Japan, Eastern Europe, Portugal and South Africa.
The film marks Virzì’s first film shot entirely in the Us. Francesca Archibugi, Francesco Piccolo, Stephen Amidon, and Virzì adapted the screenplay inspired by the novel of the same name by Michael Zadoorian.
“The Leisure Seeker looks to be a major 2017 find,” said the Spc hierarchy. “This is a rich story that promises career-best performances from Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland. We look forward to bringing Paolo Virzi’s film to audiences in the United States and around...
- 9/22/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Paolo Virzì’s most recent film “Like Crazy” was screened in the Directors’ Fortnight at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Now, currently in production on his latest drama, Sony Pictures Classics announced that it has acquired the rights in the Us, Latin America, Asia (excluding Japan), Eastern Europe, Portugal and South Africa to his movie “The Leisure Seeker,” starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland.
“‘The Leisure Seeker’ looks to be a major 2017 find. This is a rich story that promises career best performances from Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland,” the studio commented. “We look forward to bringing Paolo Virzi’s film to audiences in the United States and around the world.”
Read More: Watch Helen Mirren Shut Down a Sexist Interviewer Back in 1975
Written by Francesca Archibugi, Francesco Piccolo, Stephen Amidon and Virzì, the drama is inspired by Michael Zadoorian’s novel of the same name. This film centers...
“‘The Leisure Seeker’ looks to be a major 2017 find. This is a rich story that promises career best performances from Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland,” the studio commented. “We look forward to bringing Paolo Virzi’s film to audiences in the United States and around the world.”
Read More: Watch Helen Mirren Shut Down a Sexist Interviewer Back in 1975
Written by Francesca Archibugi, Francesco Piccolo, Stephen Amidon and Virzì, the drama is inspired by Michael Zadoorian’s novel of the same name. This film centers...
- 9/22/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Watch out highways of the East Coast—Helen Mirren is heading out in a Winnebago with Donald Sutherland in their new film “The Leisure Seeker.” The film follows two ailing retirees as they fight off poor health to take what may be their last road trip from Boston to the Ernest Hemingway House in Florida. The project will also star Christian McKay and is based on a novel by Michael Zadoorian. Filming is expected to start later this month in Atlanta. While most of the additional casting is out of the Peach State, Marc Hirschfeld is also attached to the project. Hollywood is heading to the Great White North as K’naan Warsame celebrates his new HBO pickup, “Mogadishu, Minnesota.” The Minneapolis-based pilot is about a family struggling to define what it means to be American while still living among the city’s Somali population. The project, one of the...
- 7/6/2016
- backstage.com
Helen Mirren is closing a deal to play conflicted multimillionaire heiress Sarah Winchester in the Michael and Peter Spierig-directed supernatural thriller "Winchester" for Diamond Pictures and Bullitt Entertainment.
The late 19th century-set story is based on the world famous Winchester Mystery House in San Jose. When her husband and child died suddenly, Sarah Winchester became convinced she had been cursed. A medium sent her to San Jose in 1884 to begin a massive 38-year construction of a 160-room Gothic mansion which is now considered one of the most haunted places in the world.
The Spierigs wrote the most recent draft after Tom Vaughan wrote the first draft. Shooting aims to begin later this year in San Jose and Australia.
The news comes as earlier this week Mirren committed to Italian director Paolo Virzì's adaptation of Michael Zadoorian's novel "The Leisure Seeker". Mirren and Donald Sutherland play a runaway...
The late 19th century-set story is based on the world famous Winchester Mystery House in San Jose. When her husband and child died suddenly, Sarah Winchester became convinced she had been cursed. A medium sent her to San Jose in 1884 to begin a massive 38-year construction of a 160-room Gothic mansion which is now considered one of the most haunted places in the world.
The Spierigs wrote the most recent draft after Tom Vaughan wrote the first draft. Shooting aims to begin later this year in San Jose and Australia.
The news comes as earlier this week Mirren committed to Italian director Paolo Virzì's adaptation of Michael Zadoorian's novel "The Leisure Seeker". Mirren and Donald Sutherland play a runaway...
- 5/14/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Adding a somewhat novel twist to the standard road movie, Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland have been tapped to headline The Leisure Seeker, a heartfelt drama about a retired couple plotting course for an adventure.
That’s despite doctor’s orders, too, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that the starry vehicle is aligned as “Easy Rider meets The Notebook,” with Mirren and Sutherland set to portray a couple of 70-somethings defying the odds to enjoy what is surely one of their final journeys together.
Their destination? A Winnebago Leisure Seeker, far away from a flock of grown-up children, worrying doctors and really the general hustle and bustle of modern life. It’s here that Mirren and Sutherland’s budding chemistry will be put to the sword, of course, but we’re quietly confident the pair can nail a mix of gleeful joy and poignant melancholy.
Lifted from Michael Zadoorian’s novel of the same name,...
That’s despite doctor’s orders, too, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that the starry vehicle is aligned as “Easy Rider meets The Notebook,” with Mirren and Sutherland set to portray a couple of 70-somethings defying the odds to enjoy what is surely one of their final journeys together.
Their destination? A Winnebago Leisure Seeker, far away from a flock of grown-up children, worrying doctors and really the general hustle and bustle of modern life. It’s here that Mirren and Sutherland’s budding chemistry will be put to the sword, of course, but we’re quietly confident the pair can nail a mix of gleeful joy and poignant melancholy.
Lifted from Michael Zadoorian’s novel of the same name,...
- 5/12/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Italian director Paolo Virzi set to make English-language debut with Us-set vintage camper van road movie.
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland are set to co-star in Italian director Paolo Virzi’s English language debut The Leisure Seeker as a couple who set off on a cross-country journey in a vintage camper van.
It will be Virzi’s next film after Like Crazy – starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Micaela Ramazzotti as two women who hit the road after escaping a secure psychiatric clinic – which premieres in Director’s Fortnight at Cannes this year.
Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, Marco Cohen are producing for Indiana Production, the Rome, Milan and Los Angeles-based production house which also produced Virzi’s Golden Globe nominated The First Beautiful Thing and Human Capital.
Alessandro Mascheroni, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli, and Dov Mamann are executive producers. The film is being produced with Rai Cinema.
David Grumbach and Mathieu Robinet at Paris-based Bac Films are co-producing in a second...
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland are set to co-star in Italian director Paolo Virzi’s English language debut The Leisure Seeker as a couple who set off on a cross-country journey in a vintage camper van.
It will be Virzi’s next film after Like Crazy – starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Micaela Ramazzotti as two women who hit the road after escaping a secure psychiatric clinic – which premieres in Director’s Fortnight at Cannes this year.
Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, Marco Cohen are producing for Indiana Production, the Rome, Milan and Los Angeles-based production house which also produced Virzi’s Golden Globe nominated The First Beautiful Thing and Human Capital.
Alessandro Mascheroni, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli, and Dov Mamann are executive producers. The film is being produced with Rai Cinema.
David Grumbach and Mathieu Robinet at Paris-based Bac Films are co-producing in a second...
- 5/12/2016
- ScreenDaily
Italian director Paolo Virzi set to make English-language debut with Us-set vintage camper van road movie.
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland are set to co-star in Italian director Paolo Virzi’s English language debut The Leisure Seeker as a couple who set off on a cross-country journey in a vintage camper van.
It will be Virzi’s next film after Like Crazy – starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Micaela Ramazzotti as two women who hit the road after escaping a secure psychiatric clinic – which premieres in Director’s Fortnight at Cannes this year.
Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, Marco Cohen are producing for Indiana Production, the Rome, Milan and Los Angeles-based production house which also produced Virzi’s Golden Globe nominated The First Beautiful Thing and Human Capital.
Alessandro Mascheroni, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli, and Dov Mamann are executive producers. The film is being produced with Rai Cinema.
David Grumbach and Mathieu Robinet at Paris-based Bac Films are co-producing in a second...
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland are set to co-star in Italian director Paolo Virzi’s English language debut The Leisure Seeker as a couple who set off on a cross-country journey in a vintage camper van.
It will be Virzi’s next film after Like Crazy – starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Micaela Ramazzotti as two women who hit the road after escaping a secure psychiatric clinic – which premieres in Director’s Fortnight at Cannes this year.
Fabrizio Donvito, Benedetto Habib, Marco Cohen are producing for Indiana Production, the Rome, Milan and Los Angeles-based production house which also produced Virzi’s Golden Globe nominated The First Beautiful Thing and Human Capital.
Alessandro Mascheroni, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli, and Dov Mamann are executive producers. The film is being produced with Rai Cinema.
David Grumbach and Mathieu Robinet at Paris-based Bac Films are co-producing in a second...
- 5/12/2016
- ScreenDaily
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland are teaming for The Leisure Seeker, a road movie about a retired couple who embark on an adventure in a Winnebago. The project, based on a novel by Michael Zadoorian, is being sold at Cannes by Bac Films. Italian filmmaker Paulo Virzi, whose Like Crazy is playing in Directors’ Fortnight this year, is helming. The film reunites Mirren and Sutherland, who played a couple in 1990’s Philip Borsos-directed China-set saga Bethune: The Making of…...
- 5/12/2016
- Deadline
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