Gus Van Sant‘s upcoming Restless is definitely one of those projects that we just love to write about. Especially when we have new images from this teen drama to share with you.
The movie follows Annabel and Enoch's complex and moving journey together as it culminates in their acceptance of themselves. The relationships they share with their friends, families and each other teach them their greatest lessons of all – that every end begets its own kind of rebirth, and love is deathless.
As you already know, Restless will present in the Un Certain Regard selection at the Cannes Film Festival.
Jason Lew is responsible for the script that follows: “Annabel Cotton is a beautiful and charming terminal cancer patient with a deep felt love of life and the natural world. Enoch Brae is a young man who has dropped out of the business of living, after an accident claimed the life of his parents.
When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world. For Enoch, it includes his best friend Hiroshi who happens to be the ghost of a Kamikaze fighter pilot. For Annabel, it involves an admiration of Charles Darwin and an interest in how other creatures live.
Upon learning of Annabel's imminent early passing, Enoch offers to help her face her last days with an irreverent abandon, tempting fate, tradition and even death itself. As their unique love for each other grows, so do the realities of the world that they have felt closing in on them. Daring, childlike, and distinctly rare – these two bravely face what life has in store for them. Fighting pain, anger and loss with youth, playfulness and originality, these two misfits turn the tables on life and play by their own rules. Their journey begins to collide with the unstoppable march of time, as the natural cycle of life comes to claim Annabel…”
Restless stars Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hooper, Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk and Jane Adams.
If you haven't seen trailer, you can check it out HERE
It will hit theaters in the U.S. on September 16th.
But before that happens, we wish them good luck at Cannes!
