While we’re excited for a certain Quentin Tarantino western, some hobbits and a singing Hugh Jackman, a certain independent feature has caught our eye just as much. Featured on our most-anticipated films of the fall list, Julia Loktev‘s The Loneliest Planet premiered last fall on the festival circuit to strong reviews and now it’s gearing up for a release next month.
We featured the first trailer this summer and now Movieline has weighed in with the official theatrical poster, which features our leads Gael García Bernal and Hani Furstenberg back to back as we witness some gorgeous terrain behind them. Following a trio of backpackers trekking across the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia, we’re greatly looking forward to this one. Check out the poster below.
Synopsis:
Alex and Nica are young, in love and engaged to be married. The summer before their wedding, they are backpacking in the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia. The couple hire a local guide to lead them on a camping trek, and the three set off into a stunning wilderness, a landscape that is both overwhelmingly open and frighteningly closed. Walking for hours, they trade anecdotes, play games to pass the time of moving through space. And then, a momentary misstep, a gesture that takes only two or three seconds, a gesture that’s over almost as soon as it begins. But once it is done, it can’t be undone. Once it is done, it threatens to undo everything the couple believed about each other and about themselves. All the while, they are not alone. They are always with the guide, who witnesses their every move. The film plays off the relationship between young travelers and the places they travel to, between guide and guided. But at heart, it is a love story — a tale about betrayal, both accidental and deliberate, about masculinity, failure and the ambiguities of forgiveness.
The Loneliest Planet arrives on October 26th.