Amy Adams won\u2019t be on hand for the world premiere of Korn\u00e9l Mundrucz\u00f3\u2019s \u201cAt the Sea\u201d at Berlin Film Festival on Monday, but she sent a message expressing how proud she is of the drama.<\/p>\n
The director opened the film\u2019s press conference by reading a message from the Oscar-nominated actress, who stars in \u201cAt the Sea\u201d as a woman struggling with addiction who attempts to rebuild her life after rehab.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThank you to the Berlin Film Festival for hosting the world premiere of \u2018At the Sea\u2019 this evening, and for continuing to support independent filmmaking. Your support is invaluable to me and to independent storytelling around the globe,\u201d Adams wrote. \u201cI\u2019m sorry I\u2019m not there in person, but I know Korn\u00e9l is representing us very well.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the Sea\u201d \u2014 which world premieres Sunday night in competition \u2014 also features Murray Bartlett, Brett Goldstein, Chloe East, Dan Levy, Jenny Slate and Rainn Wilson, though no one from the cast was on hand for the press conference. In addition to Mundrucz\u00f3, the presser featured screenwriter Kata W\u00e9ber and producers Alexander Rodnyansky and Vikt\u00f3ria Petr\u00e1nyi.<\/p>\n
Adams added: \u201cI\u2019m extremely proud and deeply moved by the work and my fellow cast members Murray, Chloe, Dan, Jenny, Brett and Rainn. I am forever grateful for the family we formed. Family is at the heart of this film. It was a gift to get to explore the themes of intimacy, legacy and most of all to explore a character at the crossroads of true accountability. To move on and to move forward requires brutal honesty, and I hope you feel that in every frame of the film.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the Sea\u201d stars Adams as Laura, who returns to her family\u2019s Cape Cod home after rehab. \u201cOnce the face of her late father\u2019s renowned dance company, she built an identity tethered to his legacy and the cost of growing up in his shadow. Laura\u2019s functional alcoholism, long ignored by everybody, finally reached a breaking point after a drunk-driving accident with her young son in the car. Now sober, she comes home changed, but to a family unprepared for this,\u201d the film\u2019s synopsis reads. \u201cHer husband Martin welcomes her cautiously, torn between devotion and mistrust. Their teenage daughter Josie meets Laura with hostility, while her son Felix remains distant. Over several days by the sea, family moments become pressure points, revealing buried anger, financial strain and the fragility of reconciliation. As Laura\u2019s former colleagues push her to return to the career she abandoned, she confronts a deeper question: Who is she without the identity that once justified her self-destruction?\u201d<\/p>\n
Hungarian director Mundrucz\u00f3 is best known for his 2020 film \u201cPieces of a Woman,\u201d which earned star Vanessa Kirby and Oscar nomination for best actress. Awards buzz has already started to build for Adams\u2019 performance in \u201cAt the Sea,\u201d which Mundrucz\u00f3 called \u201cunbelievably brave.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s an unbelievably gifted actress or even an artist, and she gave herself to the movie and she really tried [to give a performance] as brutally honest as possible,\u201d he said. \u201cI think the performance is unbelievably brave compared to the acceptance of Hollywood these days and how pure and raw she can be. That was her main focus.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adams, who has been Oscar-nominated six times, most recently starred in the black comedy horror film \u201cNightbitch.\u201d Up next, she\u2019s starring in Taika Waititi\u2019s anticipated adaptation of the dystopian novel \u201cKlara and the Sun\u201d alongside Jenna Ortega, and has an undisclosed role in Shawn Levy\u2019s \u201cStar Wars: Starfighter\u201d led by Ryan Gosling.<\/p>\n
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