The festival favorite (including Cannes’ Directors Fortnight) is seeing general release soon.
Yellow Veil Pictures will bring HER WILL BE DONE to New York City’s Roxy Cinema starting this Wednesday, September 23. The screenings on the 23rd, 25th and 27th will be accompanied by Q&As with director Julia Kowalski and actress Roxane Mesquida (KISS OF THE DAMNED); go here for more information. The movie then comes to VOD nationwide October 2. Scripted by Kowalski and also starring Maria Wróbel, Wojciech Skibinski, Przemyslaw Przestrzelski, Kuba Dyniewicz and Jean-Baptiste Durand, it was shot by cinematographer Simon Beaufils (ANATOMY OF A FALL, THE CARPENTER’S SON). The synopsis: “Trapped in a small French village by a loving but overprotective father and a failing farm she helps keep running, Nawojka [Wróbel] longs to go to veterinary school and get away from her brothers-turned-bullies and her judgmental small town. But her real problem is the demonic curse that she inherited from her mother—the one that apparently killed said mother and plagues her constantly, filling her head with demented visions that seem to keep coming true. When she’s not caring for the family cows or cooking for her ungrateful siblings, she’s praying and spending her nights in agony as she tries to resist the pull of evil.
“And then Sandra [Mesquida] shows up. The ‘bad girl’ daughter of the recently deceased couple next door, Sandra wants to be in the town as much as the villagers seem to want her there—that is to say, not at all. Except Nawojka. Whether it’s the allure of freedom or of forbidden love is unclear at first, but the very sight of Sandra awakens something in Nawojka. At the same time, Sandra sees the truth in Nawojka—that she needs to get away from the overbearing small minds around her.”
