The Cannes Film Festival begins in just two days and as a result more and more pictures, posters, trailers and clips from the films showing in the festival will be arriving and now we have some pictures and the first poster for one of the more anticipated films, Sicario, from Denis Villeneuve (Enemy, Prisoners) with a screenplay from first timer Taylor Sheridan. The story centers on a young female FBI agent (Emily Blunt) joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit. Jon Bernthal, Josh Brolin, Benicio del Toro, Jeffrey Donovan and Daniel Kaluuya round out the cast.
Along with a batch of pictures, all of which have been scattered around the Internet for the last week or so, today we get our first look at the film’s poster, which definitely offers up a reminder of Orson Welles trapped in the Vienna sewers in Carol Reed’s The Third Man.
As for what you can expect, Villeneuve discussed the film with The Guardian saying, “It’s about the alienation of the cycles of violence, how at one point we are in those spirals of violence and ask ourselves, ‘Is there a solution?'” the director said. “My movie raises the question; it doesn’t give any answer.”
Here’s the official synopsis followed by more pics and the film’s first poster:
In Mexico, Sicario means hitman. In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elite government task force official to aid in the escalating war against drugs. Led by an enigmatic consultant with a questionable past, the team sets out on a clandestine journey forcing Kate to question everything that she believes in order to survive.
Lionsgate will release Sicario on Sep. 18.
Some images via HitFix
