The trailer for The Seagull, the upcoming adaptation of the play by Anton Chekov, has just arrived online. The film stars Saoirse Ronan, Annette Bening, Elisabeth Moss, Corey Stoll, and Brian Dennehy, and will arrive in cinemas later in the year.
An aging actress named Irina Arkadina pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings Trigorin, a successful novelist, with her. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, falls in love with Boris Trigorin. As Trigorin lightly consumes and rejects Nina, so the actress all her life has consumed and rejected her son, who loves Nina. The victims are destroyed while the sophisticates continue on their way.
While the film is still awaiting a UK release, it is bound for cinemas Stateside on May 11th. Here’s the new trailer.
