Rachel Getting Married Looks Good

From this recently released trailer, it's clear that Rachel Getting Married, a soon-to-premiere at the Venice Film Festival/Toronto Film Festival piece of Oscar-bait, could be a low key DV remake of Margot at the Wedding and Pieces of April. However, there are lots more reasons to be intrigued by this film—it's written by Jenny Lumet, the daughter of Sidney, it apparently concerns a rehabbing ex-model (played by Anne Hathaway), who returns home for her sister's wedding, and it's the first film for Debra Winger in a dog's age and it's directed by the also absent in recent time, occasionally great, Jonathan Demme. Additionally, actors like Bill Irwin, Rosemarie Dewitt (wonderful on Mad Men as the bohemian Midge), Anna Deavere Smith make appearances, although my interest is piqued by Fab Five Freddy (as himself), and what appears to be Tunde Adebimpe, the charismatic frontman of Brooklyn band TV on the Radio, seemingly playing the groom. The working title for the film was Dancing with Shiva, and you can see where that came from in this preview:



While the hype for this film will probably be on Hathaway giving good bitch (some say Oscar!), I'm curious to see what Adebimpe's role will be. His band owned 2006 with their "best of the year"-topping album Return to Cookie Mountain (complete with a very film-student-friendly video for single "Wolf Like Me"), and they have a new album, Dear Science, dropping in September. He's a multi-talented guy, though; a graduate of NYU Film School, he's done work as an animator for MTV's Celebrity Death Match, and also starred in the charming, 60's influenced, worth a rental 2001 indie Jump Tomorrow, about a Nigerian man on the verge of an arranged marriage who's off on a road trip to Niagara Falls. He's pretty amazing when he's performing with TV on the Radio, both a little nerdy, gentle, and really sexy, and he's wonderfully buttoned up, in comparison, in Jump Tomorrow, and it'll be interesting to see what he brings to this movie.