’You see these great roles for women but they’re male gaze roles.’
Man Up Film partners Halina Reijn and Carice van Houten, whose first completed film Instinct gets its North American premiere in Tiff on Saturday (7), have optioned rights to Second World War bestseller The High Nest.
Roxane van Iperen’s novel centres on two sisters who ran a safehouse for Jews and survived the camps. “It’s a totally female-driven story,” said Reijn, who interviewed the women’s children. “I want to make it in this contemporary way with clear parallels to what’s happening with immigration and refugees today.
Man Up Film partners Halina Reijn and Carice van Houten, whose first completed film Instinct gets its North American premiere in Tiff on Saturday (7), have optioned rights to Second World War bestseller The High Nest.
Roxane van Iperen’s novel centres on two sisters who ran a safehouse for Jews and survived the camps. “It’s a totally female-driven story,” said Reijn, who interviewed the women’s children. “I want to make it in this contemporary way with clear parallels to what’s happening with immigration and refugees today.
- 9/7/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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