Downloading Nancy will premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
The feature film debut of visionary music video and commercial director Johan Renck looks intense. Dubbed by some to be the best music video director in the world, Renck was just named one of Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch. I’ve even heard some people refer to Renck as the next David Fincher. The film stars Maria Bello as an unhappy wife whose online search for someone to put her out of her misery results in a torturous love affair. Co-starring Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell, and Amy Brenneman. Check it out below.
source: FirstShowing
January 17th, 2008 at 7:26 am
This looks kinda intense. Creepy almost.
January 17th, 2008 at 7:51 am
wow.
looks like it could be one of the best and most disturbing films of 2008.
the scene with rufus and jason in the living room looks wrenching.
January 17th, 2008 at 8:00 am
creepy. and who steals the music from True Romance?
nobody….thats who.
January 17th, 2008 at 8:19 am
I already felt an intense hatred for Patric, and that was just a 3 minute trailer. This film appeals to such a dark part of myself, I almost felt guilty for wanting to see it so bad.
January 17th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Wow, I can see this movie being amazing though really hard to watch. I wish Johnny Cash had written more songs like that; sooo good.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Sorry. Too much for me to watch an hour and a half of.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Wow.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:28 am
wow… that looks awesome
January 17th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
liked the trailer until Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt” kicked in. if this hits ifc in the next five years i might watch it.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
@JV
Actually, that’s the theme music from Terrence Malick’s Badlands. Tony Scott (or QT) lifted it for True Romance.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
This goes on my short “will see list”.
Also Cameron, Johnny Cash did not write that song. But unlike Bill, I like that cover version.
January 17th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
@Bryan:
i love nine inch nails and i love johnny cash’s cover of that song. the music video is one of the most beautiful/heartbreaking things ive ever seen. so when i hear “hurt” and im not watching the music video (or a tribute to cash), it just feels inappropriate. like a cheap way to sucker me into the theater.
January 17th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Just to be accurate: that one music cue in the trailer is NOT from “Badlands.” It’s a piece called “You’re So Cool” by Hans Zimmer, which is on the “True Romance” soundtrack. Now, Zimmer was obviously mimicking Carl Orff’s “Schulwerk: Musica Poetica”, which WAS used in “Badlands,” but they’re two different pieces of music.
January 17th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
@Scott
That’s the best mimicking I’ve heard since Vanilla Ice paid homage to Queen and David Bowie.
January 17th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Hmm.. Kinda smells like a fight-club for couples to me. Jason Patric at the Husbands house was a little to much like the Jack and his Boss scene… Patric and Bello acting a lot like tyler and Jack…pushing their pain threshold and trying to hit bottom or go too far…ala the pick axe or the brocken glass to her face. Looks interesting… but a little derivative.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Oh ok must go check out the original then. Still great cover.
January 18th, 2008 at 6:09 am
This movie looks brilliant. I can’t wait to see it! I love this kind of wrenching, true-to-life performances, and Maria Bello looks like she nailed it. Interesting dynamic between Sewall and Patrick, too.
January 18th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Does anyone know what the second piece of music (right after the True Romance score) is and what it is from? I feel like I’ve heard it in a trailer before.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:58 am
@Rick
the second piece is brian eno’s “an ending (ascent)” off his “apollo atmospheres & soundtracks” lp.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 am
Nobody steals the music from True Romance, because True Romance stole its music from Badlands.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:23 pm
I watched this film at Sundance. It is still fucking with me. Amazing!!! Maybe the most intense film I’ve seen since Clean Shaven.