Trailer: CARNAGE (dir. Roman Polanski) 2011
and so we have a trailer for Polanski’s latest, one day removed from his 78th birthday. CARNAGE is slated to open the New York Film Festival in October, and is officially synopsized as “The story of two sets of parents who decide to have a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a schoolyard brawl.”
it’s a one-location chamber piece, adapted (quite faithfully, it would appear) from Yasmina Reza’s acclaimed play God of Carnage. the cast has actually down-graded in star power somewhat from the loaded Broadway production, but the actors that Polanski has assembled aren’t exactly a 2nd-rate bunch. having not seen the play, i’m struck by the comic tone of the trailer (the title and prestige of the production lead me to presume we were in for much darker fare, though i imagine that compared to the timbre of the trailer, we are).
CARNAGE will be released on 12/16/2011, and on the heels of something as potent as THE GHOST WRITER it’s hard not to be excited.
