Kurt over at RowThree highlighted this new poster for John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole, and it’s quite the stunner. The film is about a couple (played by Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart) dealing with the death of their son, and the strain that their very different ways of approaching grief puts on their marriage. This one-sheet brilliantly condenses several stages of their relationship and emotional state into a series of slatted images. It’s not easy to include the element of time in a flat, still image, but that’s precisely what this does. I already wanted to see the film based on the clips I’ve seen and how good I know Kidman can be in the right role (and from what I’ve seen, this is the right role), but somehow this poster just made me even more interested. The film is out in limited release on December 17th.
Travis McClain
That’s a rather striking poster, I have to admit. I like both of the leads, but will probably not see this based on the subject matter. A few years before I was born, an uncle of mine drowned and I’ve spent my entire life among a family dealing with that kind of loss. There’s no kind of insight the film could offer me at this point and I can’t imagine watching it for entertainment. Hopefully the film is as close to the real thing as its audience gets.
Jandy
Yeah, I can definitely imagine it will be a difficult film to watch, especially if you’ve had a similar tragedy in your life. If it were anybody else involved I probably wouldn’t be that interested in going through it, even with the distance of film.