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Showing posts with label The Tale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Tale. Show all posts
Monday, June 18, 2018
Emmy® Award Winner Laura Dern Stars in The Tale Available for Digital Download 7/2
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Laura Dern Stars in HBO Films' "The Tale," Debuting May 26 on HBO
Laura Dern Stars in HBO Films' "The Tale," Debuting May 26 on HBO
The HBO Films presentation is written and directed by Sundance Grand Prize winner and Emmy(R) nominee Jennifer Fox, who based it on her own true story.
[via press release from HBO] LAURA DERN STARS IN HBO FILMS' "THE TALE," DEBUTING MAY 26 ON HBO
Written And Directed By Jennifer Fox
Also Starring Isabelle Nélisse, Elizabeth Debicki, Jason Ritter, Frances Conroy And John Heard, With Common And Ellen Burstyn
THE TALE chronicles one woman's powerful investigation into her own childhood memories, as she is forced to reexamine her first sexual experience? - ?and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. Debuting SATURDAY, MAY 26 at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT), the HBO Films presentation is written and directed by Sundance Grand Prize winner and Emmy(R) nominee Jennifer Fox, who based it on her own true story.
The film will also be available on HBO NOW, HBO GO, HBO On Demand and partners' streaming platforms.
THE TALE stars Laura Dern (Oscar(R) nominee for "Wild" and "Rambling Rose"; Emmy(R) winner for HBO's "Big Little Lies"; Emmy(R) nominee for HBO's "Enlightened," "Recount" and "Afterburn"), Isabelle Nélisse ("Mama"), Elizabeth Debicki ("The Night Manager"), Jason Ritter ("Kevin (Probably) Saves the World"), Frances Conroy (Emmy(R) nominee for HBO's "Six Feet Under") and John Heard (Emmy(R) nominee for HBO's "The Sopranos"), with Common (Oscar(R) winner for "Selma") and Ellen Burstyn (Academy Award(R) winner for "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore").
An accomplished documentarian working in New York, Jennifer (Laura Dern) is completing her latest project about the lives of women around the world. She receives a series of phone calls from her mother, Nettie (Ellen Burstyn), who has found a short story Jennifer wrote at age 13, in which she describes various encounters with her riding instructor, Mrs. G (Elizabeth Debicki), and her running coach, Bill (Jason Ritter), while at summer camp. Nettie is unnerved by the implications of her daughter's writing, but Jennifer is nonplussed. She has always looked back with fondness on the time she spent with these two charismatic adults.
Egged on by Nettie and encouraged by her supportive fiancé (Common), Jennifer yearns to know more and sets out on a journey, 30 years later, to find those people from her past? - ?the children, now adults, who also attended the camp back then? - ?and eventually the coaches themselves. But the more she learns, the more her memories shift and the more questions she unearths. As Jennifer's frustration mounts, she finds herself turning inward to get to the truth, imagining conversations with her 13-year-old self (Isabelle Nélisse) and even Mrs. G and Bill in an effort to understand how and why events occurred so long ago.
An unforgettable meditation on the elusive nature of memory, THE TALE is the first narrative feature from Jennifer Fox, whose documentary films have earned international acclaim for their groundbreaking artistry and unflinching honesty. Based on Fox's own life story, THE TALE sees the filmmaker bravely pushing forward the boundaries of conventional storytelling, creating a dialogue between past and present to illustrate the interplay between memory and trauma.
"My goal was not to ask, 'Did this happen?,' because I always remembered it," explains writer and director Fox. "It was, 'How and why did it happen, and how and why did I spin it as a positive story to myself?' There was a lightbulb moment when I was making another film about women all around the world, and it seemed that every other woman? - ?regardless of class, culture or color? - ?had an abuse story to tell. Their stories just floored me, because they had a system or a paradigm that looked like my story. Suddenly, I couldn't see it as my own private little narrative and knew that it was time to investigate what happened in the open space of a fictional film."
THE TALE is produced by Jennifer Fox, Oren Moverman, Laura Rister, Mynette Louie, Simone Pero, Lawrence Inglee, Sol Bondy, Regina K. Scully, Lynda Weinman and Reka Posta. Julie Parker Benello, Dan Cogan, Geralyn Dreyfous, Wendy Ettinger, Abigail E. Disney, Robert & Penny Fox, Jayme Lemons, Amy Rodrigue, Ali Jazayeri, Jason Van Eman, David Van Eman, Ross Marroso and Ben McConley are executive producers.
The HBO Films presentation is written and directed by Sundance Grand Prize winner and Emmy(R) nominee Jennifer Fox, who based it on her own true story.
[via press release from HBO] LAURA DERN STARS IN HBO FILMS' "THE TALE," DEBUTING MAY 26 ON HBO
Written And Directed By Jennifer Fox
Also Starring Isabelle Nélisse, Elizabeth Debicki, Jason Ritter, Frances Conroy And John Heard, With Common And Ellen Burstyn
THE TALE chronicles one woman's powerful investigation into her own childhood memories, as she is forced to reexamine her first sexual experience? - ?and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. Debuting SATURDAY, MAY 26 at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT), the HBO Films presentation is written and directed by Sundance Grand Prize winner and Emmy(R) nominee Jennifer Fox, who based it on her own true story.
The film will also be available on HBO NOW, HBO GO, HBO On Demand and partners' streaming platforms.
THE TALE stars Laura Dern (Oscar(R) nominee for "Wild" and "Rambling Rose"; Emmy(R) winner for HBO's "Big Little Lies"; Emmy(R) nominee for HBO's "Enlightened," "Recount" and "Afterburn"), Isabelle Nélisse ("Mama"), Elizabeth Debicki ("The Night Manager"), Jason Ritter ("Kevin (Probably) Saves the World"), Frances Conroy (Emmy(R) nominee for HBO's "Six Feet Under") and John Heard (Emmy(R) nominee for HBO's "The Sopranos"), with Common (Oscar(R) winner for "Selma") and Ellen Burstyn (Academy Award(R) winner for "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore").
An accomplished documentarian working in New York, Jennifer (Laura Dern) is completing her latest project about the lives of women around the world. She receives a series of phone calls from her mother, Nettie (Ellen Burstyn), who has found a short story Jennifer wrote at age 13, in which she describes various encounters with her riding instructor, Mrs. G (Elizabeth Debicki), and her running coach, Bill (Jason Ritter), while at summer camp. Nettie is unnerved by the implications of her daughter's writing, but Jennifer is nonplussed. She has always looked back with fondness on the time she spent with these two charismatic adults.
Egged on by Nettie and encouraged by her supportive fiancé (Common), Jennifer yearns to know more and sets out on a journey, 30 years later, to find those people from her past? - ?the children, now adults, who also attended the camp back then? - ?and eventually the coaches themselves. But the more she learns, the more her memories shift and the more questions she unearths. As Jennifer's frustration mounts, she finds herself turning inward to get to the truth, imagining conversations with her 13-year-old self (Isabelle Nélisse) and even Mrs. G and Bill in an effort to understand how and why events occurred so long ago.
An unforgettable meditation on the elusive nature of memory, THE TALE is the first narrative feature from Jennifer Fox, whose documentary films have earned international acclaim for their groundbreaking artistry and unflinching honesty. Based on Fox's own life story, THE TALE sees the filmmaker bravely pushing forward the boundaries of conventional storytelling, creating a dialogue between past and present to illustrate the interplay between memory and trauma.
"My goal was not to ask, 'Did this happen?,' because I always remembered it," explains writer and director Fox. "It was, 'How and why did it happen, and how and why did I spin it as a positive story to myself?' There was a lightbulb moment when I was making another film about women all around the world, and it seemed that every other woman? - ?regardless of class, culture or color? - ?had an abuse story to tell. Their stories just floored me, because they had a system or a paradigm that looked like my story. Suddenly, I couldn't see it as my own private little narrative and knew that it was time to investigate what happened in the open space of a fictional film."
THE TALE is produced by Jennifer Fox, Oren Moverman, Laura Rister, Mynette Louie, Simone Pero, Lawrence Inglee, Sol Bondy, Regina K. Scully, Lynda Weinman and Reka Posta. Julie Parker Benello, Dan Cogan, Geralyn Dreyfous, Wendy Ettinger, Abigail E. Disney, Robert & Penny Fox, Jayme Lemons, Amy Rodrigue, Ali Jazayeri, Jason Van Eman, David Van Eman, Ross Marroso and Ben McConley are executive producers.
Monday, April 9, 2018
"The Tale" Debuts Saturday, May 26 on HBO
"The Tale" Debuts Saturday, May 26 on HBO
The film follows Jennifer (Laura Dern) as she faces life-altering questions when a short story she wrote for school at age 13 forces her to re-examine her first sexual relationship - and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
[via press release from HBO] "THE TALE" DEBUTS SATURDAY, MAY 26 ON HBO
The HBO Films presentation THE TALE will debut SATURDAY, MAY 26 at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT).
THE TALE follows Jennifer (Laura Dern) as she faces life-altering questions when a short story she wrote for school at age 13 forces her to re-examine her first sexual relationship - and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. The film is based on award-winning writer-director Jennifer Fox's own true story.
THE TALE also stars Isabelle Nélisse, Elizabeth Debicki, Jason Ritter, Frances Conroy, John Heard, with Common and Ellen Burstyn.
The film follows Jennifer (Laura Dern) as she faces life-altering questions when a short story she wrote for school at age 13 forces her to re-examine her first sexual relationship - and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
[via press release from HBO] "THE TALE" DEBUTS SATURDAY, MAY 26 ON HBO
The HBO Films presentation THE TALE will debut SATURDAY, MAY 26 at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT).
THE TALE follows Jennifer (Laura Dern) as she faces life-altering questions when a short story she wrote for school at age 13 forces her to re-examine her first sexual relationship - and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. The film is based on award-winning writer-director Jennifer Fox's own true story.
THE TALE also stars Isabelle Nélisse, Elizabeth Debicki, Jason Ritter, Frances Conroy, John Heard, with Common and Ellen Burstyn.
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