David Cronenberg‘s Maps to the Stars will be premiering at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival this month as one of two films star Robert Pattinson will be taking to the Croisette, the other being David Michod‘s The Rover as one of the Midnight Selections.
Maps, however, is playing in competition and today three clips have arrived online for the film written by Bruce Wagner (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, “State of the Union”) as a biting Hollywood satire exploring the demons of our celebrity-obsessed society.
Along with Pattinson the film stars Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Sarah Gadon, Mia Wasikowska, Evan Bird and Olivia Williams and is currently without a domestic release date, which will like depend greatly on the Cannes reaction. For now, check out the three clips below and see what you think. [Pattinson Art Work via The Playlist]
A contemporary tale exploring the demons of our celebrity-obsessed society, story follows the Weiss family, which is led by Stafford (Cusack), a psychotherapist and life coach who made his fortune with self-help books. His wife (Williams) is the overbearing mother-manager of their 13-year-old son (Evan Bird), a TV star recently out of drug rehab. Their estranged daughter (Wasikowska) has just been released from a psychiatric hospital and befriended a limo driver (Pattinson) who is also an aspiring actor.
One of Stafford’s celebrity clients is Havana (Moore), an actress with an unusual new assistant. Havana’s dream of reprising her dead mother’s (Gadon) starring role from the 1960s slowly crumbles while ghosts, death and all manner of vices collide.
