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It has a working title of Satisfaction and it appears filming has wrapped up. The MK2 site for the film has gone live.

I know it's a divisive film but I loved Me and You... and am very much looking forward to what she does next. I also like how they made a promotional poster for a film that doesn't even have a final title yet

Why?

You don't find "UNTITLED PROJECT" in big letters on a poster like its the title likable?

I'm also looking forward to this, one of many films in '09 that will go a long way in making up a pretty unremarkable 2008.

No, why this thread. July is the ultimate in self-congratulatory frivolous bourgeois hipster "bo-mo" self-indulgence. "Sophie (July, I presume) and Jason live together in their happy, crazy and poetic world" - doesn't that already tell you far more than you ever wanted to know? Given your usually wry, above-it-all attitude, domino, it says rather a lot that you are actually interested in this project, untitled or otherwise.

But, of course, it is true that a new July 'effort' will make up for the unremarkable Dust of Time, Ponyo on the Edge of the Cliff, A Christmas Tale, Soi Cowboy, Wendy & Lucy, Liverpool, Itinéraire de Jean Bricard, The Headless Woman, 35 Rhums, etc...

It says a lot about me that I look forward to a movie by a filmmaker I like? You certainly got my number!

Please remember that the synopsis is written on a French site in English, and that 2008 was unremarkable for those of us living among the many armpits of America, where most of those titles you mentioned will arrive during the first & second quarter of the 2009, if we're lucky. While I'm not in love with Ms. July's first movie, she at least seems incapable of sarcasm, which, to me, is probably worth my hard earned $5. :-$

One of the reasons I loved M&Y&EWK were the storylines of the teenagers and the little boy; an entire movie just about a relationship might not be as rich but I'm looking forward to this, nonetheless. I hope Michael Andrews does the score again.

Sophie and Jason live together in their happy, crazy and poetic world. One day when wandering in a Crafts Bazaar, they buy the portrait of a little girl made by her own father, Sophie falls in love with the latter, and their lives are turned upside down.

zomg it sounds zany!!!

Wow, so apparently this hasn't even started filming yet. Casting is only now being finalized.

I think it's funny how she sounds surprised that casting has somewhat been taken out of her hands, as though any producer would hand out eight million to a niche artist without some caveats

$8m??! A rethink required in credit-crunch times, surely...

You know for a moment there I read it as "niche artists without cravats!"

I suppose formal attire would be for the best when meeting with the studio, or be a good gift to sweeten the casting deal with fashion conscious executives, but that would be taking things a little too far!

colinr0380 wrote:You know for a moment there I read it as "niche artists without cravats!"

Well, Domino is a Bogdanovich fan.

I read the script. One of my writers (with editorial assistance), wrote a review of the script. It's not great.

In case you're curious

First review I've seen. And the title of this thread needs an update.

Another review.

Variety has their review posted. They gave the movie high marks. The review itself isn't worth reading as the writer mostly just offers a plot synopsis that has too many spoilers and little worthwhile discussion of the film.

Seems like The Future might end up being a speciality hit with the right marketing behind it.

An excellent review published in The Playlist blog.

The only negative review that I've seen is from Todd McCarthy over at The Hollywood Reporter. He doesn't seem to be a fan of her first film either. Both films are considered too "precious" and "twee".

ianungstad wrote:Both films are considered too "precious" and "twee".

A film about a life crisis caused by cat adoption? You don't say?

Markson wrote:Another review.

It's funny, I absolutely hated Me, You, and Everyone We Know, but this review makes the Future sound tempting. There's such a thin line between painfully twee indiecrap and stuff I really love, like Flight of the Conchords and Wes Anderson, that it's really hard to guess where something will fall.

I'm going to lose a bet if I like something July does, though.

Trailer

Saw said trailer before ToL and I was with my friend's sister, a nice enough sorority gal who paused at the Midnight in Paris poster in the arthouse theatre hallway and said, "See, Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams, those are my kind of people" (I didn't have the heart to tell her...). After the trailer ended, she turns and goes, "Oh yeah, we're definitely seeing that... NOT." There goes that market. The octogenarians in the audience thought the pic looked like a hoot, though-- probably something along the lines of "Oh, those crazy kids!"

Wait, what. Are those cat paws? Why are they cutting to the paws so much? Is the... is the cat talking? Is the cat the narrator?
I'm asking for real. I'm deaf and can't tell if there is a voice. Does the cat have a voice?

The cat is indeed the narrator.