By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The adaptation of Don Roff’s popular novel CLARE AT 16 is coming to big and small screens this summer.
Quiver Distribution has announced its acquisition of North American rights to SAINT CLARE, the second feature by director Mitzi Peirone, who won praise for her debut movie BRAID. Peirone also scripted the film with Guinevere Turner (AMERICAN PSYCHO), and it stars Bella Thorne (the BABYSITTER movies), Rebecca De Mornay, Frank Whaley, Ryan Phillippe, Bart Johnson, Joy Rovaris, Jan Luis Castellanos, Dylan Flashner and Erica Dasher. The synopsis: “SAINT CLARE is set against a small town where a solitary woman [Thorne] is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill-intended people and get away with it, until her last kill sucks her down a rabbit hole riddled with corruption, trafficking and visions from the beyond.”
“I think making SAINT CLARE taught me the same lessons the titular character is forced to master on her journey towards her own fate,” says Peirone. “To me, artists and people of faith are rather alike: both endeavors require relentless vision, unwavering belief, and sacrifice. So just like the martyred visionary general Joan of Arc, Clare has taught me that when you are destined with vision and clarity of purpose, then nothing can scare you–not loneliness, not violence, not being misunderstood and called insane, not rejection and ultimately not even death.”
“We are thrilled to share SAINT CLARE with audiences,” say Quiver co-presidents Berry Meyerowitz and Jeff Sackman. “The film unfolds as a visually striking and intense meditation into the sense of isolation and quiet evil that haunts this world, driven by a sublime performance from Bella Thorne and an evocative, Gothic soundtrack from Zola Jesus.”
