There is a nice big piece on the forthcoming Rosemary's Baby prequel Apartment 7A over at Vanity Fair today with pictures and some words from director Natalie Erika James (see my previous post on the film here) -- James made a truly great horror film in 2020 with Relic so I am not as down on this as you might think, given Rosemary is my favorite film of all time. There's also the cast -- Julia Garner and m'f'ing Dianne Wiest. Wiest is indeed playing Minnie Castavet, the neighbor-from-hell role that rightly won Ruth Gordon an Oscar, while Garner is playing Terry Gionoffrio, the gal Mia Farrow met briefly in the 1968 film in the laundry room (and you can see that scene being reconstructed above, this time from Terry's perspective) before she "falls" out of a window. (How Putin-esque of her.) Anyway who knows? I will go into this with an open mind given the level of talent involved -- we only know a little bit about Terry's story so the film could have some surprises, although yes, we do know where all it's headed. Open minds, open hearts, and plenty of room for chocolate mouse. Apartment 7A hits Paramount+ September 27th; y'all hit the jump for a few more photos...
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Oh wonderful if this works! I always imagine a movie without Rosemary, showing everything she doesn’t see - the seduction of Guy, the parties before she arrives, Minnie viciously berating Guy when something goes off - “What do you mean she’s going out to meet Hutch, you ass! Do I have to handle everything myself?” “….You just tell her to eat it. Aren’t you the husband?” Then it finally comes together like Dorothy stepping into Oz when Rosemary joins them in the final scene.
I know it would suck.
Haha that is the great thing about RB though -- it leaves so much unspoken, unsaid and unshown, and works so actively at doing just that. I think about Polanski's shots where characters are half obscured by walls (Minnie on the phone, the smoking in the living room) like at least once a week. Those are the things that make the film work, and last, and dig its hooks into your brain. So in theory exploring and explaining some of that stuff should be (and might very well turn out to be) a terrible idea.
But RELIC is very good at all of that stuff too, and I am hoping that James makes this work somehow. And I am no matter what excited to see what the faultless Dianne Wiest does with Minnie.
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