Sony Classics have revealed the first trailer of the enchanting The Seagull featuring Lady Bird actress Saoirse Ronan and Annette Benning.
Based on The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, the film tells the story of a young woman named Nina (Ronan) who falls in love with the wrong man, a writer named Boris Trigorin played by Corey Stoll.
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Directed by Michael Mayer from a screenplay by Stephen Karam, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Annette Bening, Billy Howle and Corey Stoll.
The film is due for release in 2018
The Seagull Synopsis
An ageing actress named Irina Arkadina pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings Trigorin, a successful novelist, with her. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighbouring estate, falls in love with Boris Trigorin. As Trigorin lightly consumes and rejects Nina, so the actress all her life has consumed and rejected her son, who loves Nina. The victims are destroyed while the sophisticates continue on their way.
