We learned back in July, Angelina Jolie‘s next project following this December’s Unbroken would be a smaller film in which she would star opposite hubby Brad Pitt and now Entertainment Weekly brings us the above first picture from By the Sea as well as this more detailed synopsis and word Niels Arestrup (A Prophet) and Richard Bohringer co-star:
Set in France during the mid-1970s, Jolie plays Vanessa, a former dancer, and Pitt is her husband Roland, an American writer. As they travel the country together, they seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper (Arestrup, pictured below) and hotel owner (Bohringer).
EW doesn’t know for sure, but suggests the film may have taken inspiration from the Emily Dickinson poem of the same name.
Jolie, who also wrote the film, told EW, “I chose to set By the Sea in the 1970s, not only because it is a colorful and alluring era, but because it removes many of the distractions of contemporary life and allows the focus to remain squarely on the emotions that the characters experience in their journey.”
By the Sea does not yet have a release date, but Universal is expected to have it in theaters in 2015.
