Chloë Sevigny and Jena Malone will be reuniting with indie filmmaker M. Blash for the black comedy “The Wait.”
The actresses will be joined by Luke Grimes (“All The Boys Love Mandy Lane”) in the film about “two sisters that decide to keep their recently deceased mother in their house after getting a call saying she will come back to life.” Malone and Sevigny will play the sisters while Grimes “will play a philosophical and enigmatic man who becomes smitten with Malone’s character.”
Sounds interesting enough, but the previous Sevigny/Malone/Blash project was the barely distributed indie drama “Lying” which barely got distribution and not-so-great notices (though, if you’re curious, its on DVD) so we’ll keep our expectations in check. Filming begins this week in Portland. [Variety]
Really?
I liked Blash's Ryan McGinley aping Levi's commercial and I was encouraged by there being a Todd Haynes interview on the Lying DVD so I checked it out and it's very, very, very mediocre. Sevigny and Malone do what they can, but they're clearly given nothing in the way of a character or direction.
There's one really awful scene in the middle of it where Sevigny is sitting in the woods listening to music (as you do) and a little boy passes by and they start talking about war, and it made me want to bash M. Blash in the face with an object as blunt as his facile commentary on fighting was.
The Haynes interview on the DVD (it's also online) is interesting only in that you can tell that Haynes clearly spent more time thinking about the film and sorting what it's about than Blash did.
So I'm surprised someone is giving him money.