Angelina Jolie Pitt is back in the director’s chair for her latest, By The Sea, but this time, she’s also writing and starring, and has added one more element: a certain Mr. Brad Pitt, who she apparently found following a worldwide casting search and then a quick look around her house. The new trailer for the film is now online.
This is an intimate drama, a throwback to 1970s films set in the era itself, and finds Vanessa (Jolie Pitt), a former dancer, and her husband Roland (Pitt), an American writer, travelling the French countryside together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner. Obviously there are issues to be worked out here, and from the looks of this, there will be tears, if not blood.
The tone is clear in this one, using music in place of dialogue and spotlighting the couple’s interaction rather than the supporting characters played by Mélanie Laurent, Melvil Poupaud, Niels Arestrup and Richard Bohringer. By The Sea arrives in the US on November 13 before making it to UK shores on December 11.