Tim Roth and Trine Dyrholm hit the festival circuit this month with Désirée Nosbusch’s emotionally raw drama Poison, in which they co-star as an ex-couple who meet up years after the death of their young son which drove them apart.
The feature, which world premieres at Germany’s Munich Film Festival on July 5 and then heads to Ireland’s Galway Film Festival, is adapted from Dutch writer Lot Vekemans’ award-winning 2010 play.
It unfolds against the backdrop of the cemetery where the son is buried, with the reunion sparked by a letter notifying the ex-partners that their son’s grave is being moved due to building work.
When Roth and Dyrholm agreed to take on the roles, neither had an inkling of the personal events that would lend an extra emotional layer to the shoot.
Having signed for the film, Roth learned of son Cormac Roth’s diagnosis with stage...
The feature, which world premieres at Germany’s Munich Film Festival on July 5 and then heads to Ireland’s Galway Film Festival, is adapted from Dutch writer Lot Vekemans’ award-winning 2010 play.
It unfolds against the backdrop of the cemetery where the son is buried, with the reunion sparked by a letter notifying the ex-partners that their son’s grave is being moved due to building work.
When Roth and Dyrholm agreed to take on the roles, neither had an inkling of the personal events that would lend an extra emotional layer to the shoot.
Having signed for the film, Roth learned of son Cormac Roth’s diagnosis with stage...
- 7/1/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
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