Mick Jagger joins the filming of Three Incestuous Sisters by Alice Rohrwacher

Mick Jagger to play a lighthouse keeper in Three incestuous sistersthe new film adaptation orchestrated by filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher. The singer joins an A-list cast including Dakota Johnson, Josh O’Connor, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley and Isabella Rossellini.

Adapted from the graphic novel by Audrey Niffenegger, the film explores the lives of three sisters living in isolation, whose balance is disrupted by the arrival of Paris, the son of a lighthouse keeper, with whom the three sisters fall in love. When Paris chooses Bettine and she becomes pregnant, her sisters are jealous. According to information collected by Variety, Mick Jagger would play the lighthouse keeper, while Josh O’Connor would lend his features to the son.

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Production, which began in April with a planned duration of ten weeks, takes place partly on the volcanic island of Stromboli, Sicily. A choice of location that resonates with the history of the seventh art and Isabella Rossellini: the team invested in a villa where, in 1949, Roberto Rossellini began his affair with Ingrid Bergman during the filming of the film Stromboli.

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If music remains his favorite field, this participation will not be Mick Jagger’s first cinematic foray. Of his significant role in Performance (1970) to his appearances in Freejackor more recently The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019), the artist was able to punctuate his career with remarkable performances, confirming his ability to hide behind complex characters under the direction of recognized filmmakers.

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The singer will be directed here by a young Italian director whose style subtly combines the unreal and realism. Alice Rohrwacher, doubly awarded at the Cannes Film Festival for The Wonders (Grand prize in 2014) and Happy like Lazzaro (Screenplay Prize in 2018), with this project, signs his first feature film in the English language. Rewarded this year by the European Film Academy for her contribution to world cinema, she confirms with each film her gifts as an actor director.