Below is your first look at Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent) and Oscar winner Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) in upcoming drama The Last Day, also starring Victoria Pedretti (The Haunting of Hill House).
Going into this week’s European Film Market, WestEnd Films has acquired international sales rights the feature debut written and directed by artist Rachel Rose. CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group co-rep North America.
Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway, The Last Day “unfolds over a single summer day in New York, where the lives of two mothers briefly entwine. Julia, a writer and mother, is unsettled by creative stagnation, unprocessed grief, and the approach of her daughter’s adolescence. An unexpected encounter withTaylor—a labor and delivery nurse in the midst of a postpartum crisis—pushes Julia to reconsider the life she has built, and whether she can rediscover herself within it”.
The film, currently in post-production, is produced by Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler (Past Lives) and Mason Plotts (May December) for Killer Films, David Kaplan (Josephine), Lucie Elwes, and Rachel Rose. Maja Hoffmann and Lucas Hoffmann of Luma Projects serve as executive producers.
Writer-director Rachel Rose said: “Becoming a mother felt to me like a collision between a beginning and a threat, and I knew I needed to write from the existential tension of that contradiction. In Mrs. Dalloway, I was struck by how Virginia Woolf reveals Clarissa’s self-erasure not through overt drama, but through the texture of a single, ordinary day–errands, chance encounters—until something immense has shifted inside her. That structure became my guide.”
She continued: “This film follows two mothers over the course of one day, using its mundane rhythms to explore what it feels like to lose one’s bearings, to experience rudderlessness, and to reckon with how far, and how subtly, motherhood can carry us away from ourselves.”
The film has been acquired under WeLove, WestEnd’s label dedicated to female-driven stories.
