'Margaret' trailer

Ok, I'm totally aware that the Venice Film Festival is in full swing (today Polanski's Carnage has been more or less positively received, while Madonna's W.E. has been trashed, as expected) and that the ever-secretive Telluride Film Festival has just unveiled the lineup for its 38th edition, but I've been waiting 6 years to get a first glimpse of some footage from Kenneth Lonergan's sophomore film Margaret, so forgive me if I ignore those events and offer up the freshly released trailer of Margaret instead.

Two weeks ago I posted an entry here in which I extensively elaborated on the tribulations and woes the film has gone through and leading lady Anna Paquin's career transformation since Margaret was shot six years ago.  

In case you haven't heard about it yet, it all boils down to this. Margaret was shot back in 2005 from an unusually long 168-page shooting script (effectively the origin of most of the film's woes), and problems started to arise as soon as work in the editing room took off. The critical success of his film debut You Can Count on Me had granted Lonergan a director's cut status, which allowed him to reject all of the early cuts of the film. Martin Scorsese saw one of those early cuts and famously hailed the film as 'a masterpiece', a comment that has doubtless contributed to the legend of this doomed project. In any case, his intervention has proved pivotal in the search of a satisfactory resolution since he sent in his longtime editor Thelma Schoonmaker, who finally came up with a cut everybody, including perfectionist Lonergan, seems to be happy about.

You can read the whole story here or simply check up the trailer.

Comments

[reader]

finally, after so many years !!!