![]() While Shyamalan's more mysterious movies tend to set up – or at least hint at – the 'why?' before letting their oblivious audiences in on exactly what's been going on, Old does the opposite. But unlike some of his previous pictures, which hinge on a late-in-the-day twist that makes you reassess everything you've just seen, it's surprisingly upfront about its premise.īased on Sandcastle, the 2010 graphic novel by Frederik Peeters and Pierre Oscar Lévy, the movies follows two families, a middle-aged couple and a young man, who find themselves trapped on a secluded beach that's causing them to age so rapidly, it threatens to reduce their whole lives to a single day. As is frequently the case with French-produced bandes dessinées, “Sandcastle” is a stark existentialist parable.M Night Shyamalan's latest thriller Old is bonkers. “Shyamalan adapted his disquieting tale from the graphic novel “Sandcastle,” by the French writer Pierre Oscar Lévy and the Swiss illustrator Frederik Peeters. From the moment I read this I was changed.” Its themes of aging had me thinking about my parents and children and how quickly it all goes by. It is a profound mystery, sci-fi graphic novel that is illustrated so beautifully and with such humanity. "Begins like a murder mystery, continues like an episode of The Twilight Zone, and finishes with a kind of existentialism that wouldn't be out of place in a Von Trier film." Forbidden Planet International blog review This book gave me the opportunity to work through things like my parents’ getting older…” It was just a beautiful thing, and kind of touching, that it came from my daughters, this story about getting older very, very quick.” "I read it, and the premise was so powerful, of these people that went to this beach and their experience that happens on that day in the beach… I thought it was very frightening and emotional, and the ideas just started coming, and I tracked down the owner, and the person that wrote it. "It's based on this graphic novel that I was given from my daughters," he said. ![]() ![]() As is frequently the case with French-produced bandes dessinées, “Sandcastle” is a stark existentialist parable.” -New York Times Weighty stuff, expertly told.” -The Comics Bulletin “Peeters and Lévy convey some profound, if profoundly unsubtle, truths about the human condition. “ Sandcastle is a fast 112-page read you won't be able to put down.”. “Begins like a murder mystery, continues like an episode of The Twilight Zone, and finishes with a kind of existentialism that wouldn’t be out of place in a Von Trier film.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review From the moment I read this I was changed.” - M. Levy’s dramatic storytelling works seamlessly with Peeters’s sinister art to create a profoundly disturbing and fantastical mystery. ![]() Soon everybody is growing older-every half hour-and there doesn’t seem to be any way out of the cove. Then there is the odd fact that all the children are aging rapidly. It’s a perfect beach day, or so thought the family, young couple, a few tourists, and a refugee who all end up in the same secluded, idyllic cove filled with rock pools and sandy shore, encircled by green, densely vegetated cliffs.įirst there is the dead body of a woman found floating in the crystal-clear water. Night Shyamalan, from his screenplay based on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters. The movie is scheduled to be released July 23, 2021. The inspiration for Old, a Blinding Edge Pictures production, directed and produced by two-time Oscar nominee M.
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