Claire Denis’ First English Film Will Be a Space Tale With Zadie Smith

Well this is exciting : director Claire Denis ( I Ca n’t Sleep ) and generator Zadie Smith ( White Teeth ) are teaming up to make a skill fable moving-picture show . Keep on middle on this one , it ’s pop off to be entrancing .

All we be intimate about the plot is that it ’s a skill fiction film , set in space “ beyond the solar system , in a future that seems like the present tense . ” The idea comes from Denis and her usual composition better half Jean - Pol Fargeau , but with a script from Denis , Smith , and Nick Laird .

As theAV Clubhas sussed out , the new film may be base on short Denis made in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson . The short is called Contact , and features a score by Stuart Staples ( also said to be working on the coming film ) and was shot by Denis ’ cinematographer Agnes Godard and Yorick Le Saux ( Only Lovers Left Alive ) . Here ’s the scant , which has atmospheric state galore :