Shortly after arriving at their idyllic holiday resort, precocious littl'un Trent (Nolan River) befriends a sweet boy named Idlib (Kailen Jude), who seems to live at the hotel and is often seen being bossed about by its manager Nils (Gustaf Hammarsten). The trip does turn out to be one the youngsters will never forget, too, but not at all in the way their parents had intended. They do plan on telling them eventually (Prisca has already met someone else and sorted out a new place for herself outside of the family home) they just want to give them one last memory-filled vacation first. Specifically, the thriller follows risk analyst Guy (Gael García Bernal) and museum curator Prisca Capa (Vicky Krieps), a married couple trying their best to keep their impending separation a secret from their two children 6-year-old Trent and preteen Maddox.
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Related: M Night Shyamalan says new movie Old is like "nothing else" It leaves you guessing until its final act – and even then it refuses to give you all the answers.īefore we can go into how it ends, though, we need to take things back to the beginning and head into some major spoilers, so look away now if you haven't seen Old. While Shyamalan's more mysterious movies tend to set up – or at least hint at – the 'why?' before letting their oblivious audiences in on exactly what's been going on, Old does the opposite. But unlike some of his previous pictures, which hinge on a late-in-the-day twist that makes you reassess everything you've just seen, it's surprisingly upfront about its premise.īased on Sandcastle, the 2010 graphic novel by Frederik Peeters and Pierre Oscar Lévy, the movies follows two families, a middle-aged couple and a young man, who find themselves trapped on a secluded beach that's causing them to age so rapidly, it threatens to reduce their whole lives to a single day. As is frequently the case with French-produced bandes dessinées, “Sandcastle” is a stark existentialist parable.M Night Shyamalan's latest thriller Old is bonkers. “Shyamalan adapted his disquieting tale from the graphic novel “Sandcastle,” by the French writer Pierre Oscar Lévy and the Swiss illustrator Frederik Peeters. Weighty stuff, expertly told.” -The Comics Bulletin “Peeters and Lévy convey some profound, if profoundly unsubtle, truths about the human condition. “ Sandcastle is a fast 112-page read you won't be able to put down.”. “Begins like a murder mystery, continues like an episode of The Twilight Zone, and finishes with a kind of existentialism that wouldn’t be out of place in a Von Trier film.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review From the moment I read this I was changed.” - M.
Its themes of aging had me thinking about my parents and children and how quickly it all goes by. It is a profound mystery, sci-fi graphic novel that is illustrated so beautifully and with such humanity. Levy’s dramatic storytelling works seamlessly with Peeters’s sinister art to create a profoundly disturbing and fantastical mystery. Soon everybody is growing older-every half hour-and there doesn’t seem to be any way out of the cove. Then there is the odd fact that all the children are aging rapidly. It’s a perfect beach day, or so thought the family, young couple, a few tourists, and a refugee who all end up in the same secluded, idyllic cove filled with rock pools and sandy shore, encircled by green, densely vegetated cliffs.įirst there is the dead body of a woman found floating in the crystal-clear water. Night Shyamalan, from his screenplay based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters. The movie is scheduled to be released July 23, 2021. The inspiration for Old, a Blinding Edge Pictures production, directed and produced by two-time Oscar nominee M.
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