Golden Globe nominated Brendan Gleeson (The Guard, In Bruges) and Abbie Cornish (Bright Star, W.E.) are set to star in the new dramatic thriller An Ordinary Man for Brad Silberling (City of Angels, Moonlight Mile, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events) who will direct from his own original script.
The contemporary suspense tale centers on the unexpected relationship between a fictitious war criminal in hiding, and his only human contact – his maid.
Silberling produces the film through his Reveal Entertainment banner, in a co-production with Disruptive Media and producers Chris Miller, James Burke and Michael Richter. David Lonner executive produces the film that is targeted to start principal photography this fall on location in Belgrade, Serbia.
Radiant Films International helmed by President and CEO Mimi Steinbauer will handle international rights to the film and will introduce the project to buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Market.
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From Hollywood Reporter:
While Cornish’s Spanish is perhaps a little too clean and unaccented to be that of a working-class Texan girl, her performance is riveting, channeling an air of Jodie Foster in her English-language scenes. She plays Ashley’s slow transition – from helplessness and selfish expediency to devastated culpability and hard-won self-knowledge – with a conviction that is no less stirring for being so understated.
The Press Archives have been updated with two brand new interviews with Abbie from the Tribeca Film Festival, in which she discusses her work in The Girl.
From Next Movie:
Some stick more than others. Some, you just finish the film and let them go. Films like the ones I just mentioned, those four films won’t ever leave me — the characters or the experiences. Like I still recite the poem “Bright Star” in my head at least a couple times a week. Sometimes more, even. I don’t know why that’s so deeply ingrained within me. I think when you invest that much into something, artistically or creatively, there’s this connection to it that never goes away.
From The Playlist:
I think we had discussions about it. To not judge Ashley, to let her be. It’s not about popularity with her, it wasn’t about how we show this woman in a way that’s likeable. Not just that she’s cranky, she messes up, and she’s just not a very good person. That’s who she is. It doesn’t mean she’s a bad person at the core of herself, she’s just not connected to that core. There’s so many levels of this film that are political and spiritual, but for me the beauty of the film in regards to Ashley’s character was the journey into her life. The letting go. You see that moment you talked about, that moment that’s hope, that’s light.
From Screen Daily:
Writer/director David Riker shoots impressively, making the best of the striking border locations, and with Abbie Cornish he has an actress whose quiet resolve fits her character perfectly. Solid, proud and gently determined, her anger at everyone around her – as she apparently seeks to blame everyone but herself for her predicament – gradually fades as she finds a certain grace in her mission of motherhood.
Abbie Cornish has made a habit of taking on tough roles in difficult movies. In the 19th century romance Bright Star she played the secret love of English poet John Keats; in W.E. she tackled an unhappily married woman obsessed with Wallis Simpson. (And that doesn’t include indies such as Candy, in which she played a heroin addict opposite Heath Ledger.) None of those films found a terribly wide audience.
Cornish continues the dark-and-difficult pattern with The Girl, a bilingual immigrant drama that had its world premiere this weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival. David Riker’s moody indie has the Australian actress playing Ashley, an impoverished Texas woman whose child is taken away from her due to her drinking and generally bad parenting. Desperate for cash, Ashley tries to smuggle a group of Mexicans across the border into the United States, an operation that goes horribly wrong and winds up with Ashley responsible for a cute but petulant young Mexican girl (Maritza Santiago Hernandez).
Cornish’s character then spends much of the downbeat movie on-screen by herself, or with the girl in gritty Mexican neighborhoods trying to figure a way out of her mess, as the walls close in and the dialogue gets even less frequent.
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Limitless (2011) 
Sucker Punch (2011) 
W.E. (2011) 
The Girl (2012) 
Seven Psychopaths (2012) 
