Hollywood's most powerful couple is teaming up for the big screen once more. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie play a turbulent couple in "By the Sea" and the very first trailer was unveiled recently, allowing a sneak peek into the highly-anticipated film.
Written and directed by Jolie, the drama revolves around an unhappy couple vacationing in France in the mid-70s. The trip only seems to highlight the turmoil of the strained marriage as Vanessa (Jolie) and Roland (Pitt) drift further away from each other and draw closer to the seaside town's other magnetic characters. French actors Mélanie Laurent and Melvil Poupad, among others, rounded out the cast of the relationship drama.
There was little dialogue in the one minute trailer; instead, telling snapshots of the characters' lonely figures served to underline the rocky nature of their relationship: Jolie on the bed with tears in her eyes, Pitt nursing a drink at the bar and on another shot curled asleep on a bench, the wife strolling on the coast that overlooked the cobalt sea. The video built up to a poignant shot of Pitt leaving the room as Jolie lay crumpled up on the floor. Throughout the trailer, Harry Nilsson's easy crooning of folk tune Perfect Day is in total juxtaposition to the agitation on the screen.
"By the Sea" is the first collaboration of the real-life couple since they famously starred together on Mr. and Mrs. Smith ten years ago. Since then, the pair has built a life together with beautiful children and flourishing careers. However, Jolie admitted that troubles do come along every now and then, and she was able to draw inspiration from her relationship with Pitt for some parts of "By the Sea", which the couple actually filmed during their honeymoon in Malta.
"I'd be directing myself and him in a scene where we're having a fight, and I'd be pulling out the parts [of him] that have an aggression toward me or when you're frustrated with each other - it was very heavy," Jolie told DGA in an interview. "We kept joking that all of the crew felt like they were living in a house where the parents were fighting and you don't know where to stand or where to look."
The stirring movie is Jolie's third foray into directing after "In the Land of Blood and Honey" (2011) and "Unbroken" (2014).
According to TIME.com, "By the Sea" is set to be released in theaters on November 2015.
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