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Jessie Buck­ley is set to star in Alex Garland’s next film, Men

06 Jan 2021

Words by Charles Bramesco

A woman wearing a glittery red dress performs on stage with her arms raised, her mouth open in a passionate expression.
A woman wearing a glittery red dress performs on stage with her arms raised, her mouth open in a passionate expression.
She’ll play a young woman mourn­ing the death of her ex-hus­band while on hol­i­day in the Eng­lish countryside.

For a minute there, it seemed like Alex Gar­land might end up one of those promis­ing cin­e­mat­ic tal­ents lured to the wilds of TV by loos­er run times and less­ened over­sight. But the accom­plished film­mak­er behind the sci-fi stand­outs Ex Machi­na and Anni­hi­la­tion will fol­low up his polar­iz­ing small-screen series Devs with anoth­er fea­ture project, and the good news doesn’t stop there.

An exclu­sive from Dead­line announced today that Gar­land is ready­ing his next film, the A24 pro­duc­tion sim­ply titled Men, with a pair of high-pro­file cast­ings. Rory Kin­n­ear, a friend­ly face from the Daniel Craig-era 007 pic­tures, will star along­side everyone’s favorite break­out tal­ent, Jessie Buck­ley.

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Buck­ley has strung togeth­er three major gigs over the past cou­ple years – a name-mak­ing musi­cal turn in Wild Rose, fol­lowed by the release of Far­go​‘s fourth sea­son and Char­lie Kauf­man​‘s I’m Think­ing of End­ing Things this past fall – and will soon appear in Mag­gie Gyl­len­haal​‘s direc­to­r­i­al effort The Lost Daugh­ter. And she now appears ready to car­ry a film on her own, judg­ing by the brief synopsis.

The Dead­line item describes Men as fol­low­ing ​“a young woman who goes on a solo vaca­tion to the Eng­lish coun­try­side after the death of her ex-hus­band,” a log­line so bare-bones that it must be con­ceal­ing some dimen­sion inte­gral to the undis­closed genre. Could this seem­ing dra­ma set­up be hid­ing traces of sci-fi, or per­haps horror?

If noth­ing else, a good­ly num­ber of view­ers can be count­ed on to pay up for the oppor­tu­ni­ty to watch Buck­ley sad­ly wan­der the rolling hills of rur­al Eng­land. Sure­ly there will be more to the film than that, but what more could a rea­son­able movie­go­er want?

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