{"id":88660,"date":"2025-05-09T23:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T23:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88660\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T23:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T23:58:11","slug":"scarlett-johansson-directed-eleanor-the-great-first-look-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88660\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson-Directed ‘Eleanor The Great’: First-Look Clip"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Deadline can reveal the first clip of Scarlett Johansson<\/a>\u2018s directorial debut Eleanor the Great<\/a>, which will premiere in the Un Certain Regard lineup<\/a> at the Cannes<\/a> Film Festival, which begins next week.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe culmination of Johansson\u2019s long-held dream to direct a feature, Eleanor the Great stars nonagenarian June Squibb<\/a> as Eleanor, a woman grieving the loss of Bessie, her best friend and roommate. When she moves to Manhattan to live with her daughter and grandson, Eleanor finds herself going on something of an odyssey in search of connection \u2014 with sometimes shocking results. When she inadvertently joins a Holocaust survivors\u2019 group, Eleanor is reminded of her late friend Bessie\u2019s harrowing experience growing up in Nazi-occupied Poland. But, when Nina, a journalism student, takes a vested interest in Eleanor, the truth suddenly becomes a slippery subject.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe above first-look clip shows Squibb as Eleanor in feisty form. As she readies to pack up and leave Florida for New York, she shuts down her passive aggressive neighbor\u2019s comments with a comeback about the woman\u2019s husband. \u201cSay goodbye to Melvin for me,\u201d Eleanor says, with a twinkle in her eye. \u201cWe had such a wonderful time the other night. He\u2019s very strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJohansson has been behind the camera before, directing a 12-minute short called These Vagabond Shoes for the 2008 portmanteau film New York, I Love You. But this is the first feature she\u2019s ever directed.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Eleanor<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tJune Squibb as Eleanor with Erin Kellyman as Nina in \u2018Eleanor the Great\u2019.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnne Joyce<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film also stars Erin Kellyman as Nina, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Nina\u2019s father, Breaking Bad\u2018s Jessica Hecht as Eleanor\u2019s daughter and Holocaust survivor Rita Zohar as Bessie. Kellyman, who will next appear in Danny Boyle\u2019s 28 Years Later, was most recently seen alongside Saoirse Ronan in Blitz. <\/p>\n

\n\tEleanor the Great is from a screenplay by first-time feature writer Tory Kamen, and sees Sony Pictures Classics<\/a> and TriStar Pictures partnering for the first time. The film is produced by Johansson\u2019s These Pictures with Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn, Pinky Promise\u2019s Jessamine Burgum and Kara Durrett, and Maven Screen Media\u2019s Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray.<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out the clip above.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Scarlett<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tJohansson on the set of \u2018Eleanor the Great\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnne Joyce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal the first clip of Scarlett Johansson\u2018s directorial debut Eleanor the Great, which will premiere…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[5839,42213,77,42214,3943,5842,42215,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-88660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-cannes","9":"tag-eleanor-the-great","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-june-squibb","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-scarlett-johansson","14":"tag-sony-pictures-classics","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114480592067013772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}