Fiona Shaw, Jessie Buckley and Vicky Krieps are set to star in Hot Milk, the directorial debut of UK writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz, for Christine Langan’s Bonnie Productions, FIlm4 and HanWay Films.
Hot Milk is based on the novel by Deborah Levy, and will see Shaw play a woman with a mystery illness that has left her wheelchair bound. She travels to the Spanish seaside down of Almería with her daughter (Buckley) to consult with a physician who could possibly hold a cure. The daughter befriends a traveller (Krieps), and discovers a new freedom away from her controlling mother.
Lenkiewicz’s writing credits include Wash Westmoreland’s Colette and Sebastián Lelio’s Disobedience.
This is the first film from Langan’s production company, Bonnie Productions, which she set up in 2020. The project has been developed with Film4 and is in pre-production, with shooting to begin in September 2022, in Almería.
HanWay is launching worldwide sales at the European Film Market next week.
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