Bleecker Street has released the first trailer, poster and photos forUnsane, the new psychological thriller that directorSteven Soderberghshot entirely in secret, using an iPhone. Claire Foy stars as a young woman named Sawyer Valentini, who is trying to deal with a dangerous stalker. After relocating to a new city, she keeps thinking that her stalker has followed her from Boston, and after seeking out support groups for victims of stalking, she finds a facility that she thinks will be able to help her, although she has essentially signed herself over to this insane asylum.
This trailer comes just a week after thefirst look photowas released, featuring Claire Foy’s lead character trying to call the authorities, to let them know she’s being held against her will. The nurse informs her that the police get a slew of calls just like that from this facility every week, as she refuses to believe that she has lost her mind. Even within the sanctity of this insane asylum, this disturbed young woman keeps seeing her stalker (Joshua Leonard) throughout this facility. The trailer also offers a first look at Sawyer’s mother, played by Amy Irving, who tries her best to get her daughter out of this facility.
As one would imagine, thisinsane asylumis filled with a number of colorful characters, some of whom we get to see in this trailer. While we don’t learn much about these characters from this trailer, we get brief glimpses of some of Sawyer’s fellow patients played by Juno Temple, whose almost unrecognizable with her unique braids, Jay Pharoah and Aimee Mullins. The supporting cast also includes Erin Wilhelmi, Colin Woodell, Sarah Stiles and Polly McKee. The film is slated to have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival next month, before arriving in theaters on March 23, where it faces Open Road Films’Midnight Sun, Universal’sPacific Rim Uprisingand Paramount’sSherlock Gnomes.
This marks the second film from Steven Soderbergh after thedirector came out of retirementto makeLogan Lucky, his first feature film since 2013’sSide Effects. The filmmaker directs from a script by the writing team of Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer, whose diverse writing credits includeMax Keeble’s Big Move,Larry the Cable Guy: Health InspectorandThe Spy Next Door. Along with directing, Steven Soderbergh also serves as the director of photography, shooting the film himself on an iPhone, with the movie being shot entirely in secret. Since “retiring,” the filmmaker has also directed all 20 episodes ofThe Knickand the entire six-episode season of HBO’sMosaic, which debuted earlier this month.
Claire Foy had her breakthrough role in 2008 as Amy Dorrit on the hit mini-seriesLittle Dorrit, and she made her feature film debut in 2011’sSeason of the Witch, starring Nicolas Cage, and she has quickly risen through the acting ranks since then. She went on to star inVampire Academy,Rosewaterand TV shows likeCrossbonesandWolf Hall, before landing the title role in Netflix’sThe Queen. She most recently signed on to star asLisbeth Salanderin Sony’sThe Girl In the Spider’s Web. Take a look at the first trailer, poster and photos forUnsane, courtesy ofBleecker Street YouTube.
