Robert Pattinson as Monte Featured on Cover of Film Comment March/April 2019 issue

Above is a HQ version of the cover of Film Comment featuring Rob as Monte. Nick Pinkerton also interviewed Claire Denis for the March/April 2019 issue of Film Comment “The Point of No Return“. Below is an extract that mentions Rob:

Staples’s distinct, pained baritone is absent from the soundtrack—it’s instead Pattinson who handles vocals on the closing- credits song, a lullaby written by Staples during tour downtime. The film is Denis’s first time working with the actor, as well as her first time making a movie wholly in English—though her 2001 Trouble Every Day, whose cast included Americans Vincent Gallo and Tricia Vessey, was perhaps 50/50. Talking after the movie’s NYFF press screening, Pattinson recalled Denis introducing the late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis, another young father of unpromising background, as a frame of reference. Denis cites other influences on the character, including reading Romeo and Juliet on the set in English, which inspired her to give father Capulet’s griping endearment of “baggage” to Monte. “There is so much tenderness in Shakespeare’s way, expressing this most sweet tenderness in a horrible situation,” she says. “‘One little body.’ It’s almost an incestuous way to speak to his daughter!” ­­­­

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