New Still of Robert Pattinson as Samuel Alabaster in #DAMSEL

 

THR Day 1 Berlinale Daily also gave us a great new still from Damsel featuring Rob.  The edition also contained a review (see below) which contains many spoilers and is not positive other than saying it shows Rob “in a favourable new light”.

****SPOILER ALERT****

   

Robert Pattinson talks Damsel with IndieWire Studio at Sundance18

We have seen a snippet of this interview with Rob HERE, but this is the full interview with Mia, the Zellner Bros and some classic Rob and it’s new to me.

 

Robert Pattinson to Attend Berlinale to Present #Damsel

 

 ****UPDATED: 14 February 2018*****

You might have hoped as much as we did and we’re now happy to confirm that #RobertPattinson is back on the #Berlinale Red Carpet with his new film #Damsel. He definitely seemed to enjoy Berlin last year!🤞🏼 https://t.co/LF1w86viKa pic.twitter.com/WjiPAgW9ii

— Berlinale (@berlinale) February 13, 2018

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According to Screen Daily:

Robert Pattinson, Bill Nighy, Jeff Daniels, Tilda Swinton, Joaquin Phoenix, Isabelle Huppert are among the international guests who will present their films in Berlin.

As promised, Berlinale posted the program on their website and Damsel will premiere on 16 February 2017 at 7.00pm.  We also finally got a teaser clip.  Sorry if I got too excited and called it a trailer on Twitter – I was just happy and excited to see Samuel Alabaster in motion.

Damsel teaser trailer pic.twitter.com/mqa2uHz4r9

— Robert Pattinson AU (@RPAustralia) February 6, 2018

Robert Pattinson is the unreliable narrator Samuel Alabastor in #Damsel

The Film Stage spoke to the Zellner Bros about Damsel, deconstructing the genre and creating a mythic, humorous western.  They obviously also discussed Rob.  There are quite a few spoilers (including one about Rob’s character that I’ve put behind the cut below).  If you want to read the complete interview, then click on the hyperlink, but the extract concerning Rob and Samuel Alabaster is below:

Robert Pattinson’s character in Damsel feels like he could be ancestor of his Good Time character Connie.

[Both laugh.]

Just manipulating anyone to get what he wants, even though he’s more sweet-natured in this film. Can you talk about forming that character? His introduction at the bar and the dialogue there is amazing.

David Zellner: Yeah, we just wanted to use the hero archetype as a foundation and then deviate from there with it. So much of the information you are getting is through his perspective and his image of himself or what he wants to believe or what he’s trying to project. It makes him not the most reliable narrator.

Speaking about the structure, I heard that it was one of your first ideas. You don’t have to go into spoilers, but just talk about coming up with that and how you guys are always one step ahead of the audience. Even though we think we’ve figured things out, we really haven’t.

David Zellner: Yeah, that’s part of the fun of it. We wanted to play with structure and things that might be a climax don’t necessarily take place at the climax and we’re left dealing with the aftermath of a certain situation. The middle was kind of the impetus for it everything grew out in each direction from there. We always knew we wanted that to be the kind of centerpiece and build from there.

Nathan Zellner: And technically we talked a lot about–when shooting it and especially in post-production–shifting the point of view and which character was where we wanted the audience to side or see through. That really helped with the unreliable narrator of Samuel [Pattinson’s character] because as soon as you introduce him you’re on his side and we’re watching things unfold with him. Then with the middle part it becomes…

David Zellner: …more complicated. [Laughs]

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Robert Pattinson on Damsel at THR Studios at Sundance

We have seen and posted bits of this interview before, but THR have now uploaded into one clip. I love how much fun they seem to be having during this Sundance promo.

 

Robert Pattinson & Zellner Bros #Damsel Screening at SXSW Film Festival

 

Damsel will screen as part of “Festival Favourites” at the SXSW Film Festival which runs from 9 to 18 March 2018 in Austin, Texas.  A specific screening date & time is yet to be advised, but as soon as it is, I will let you know.

~~~~ UPDATED: 20 February 2018 ~~~~

DAMSEL will have 4 screening at SXSW on 12, 13, 16 & 17 March 2018.  Details below or you can click HERE.  Information on how to attend SXSW HERE