The French director and playwright continues his international career with a psychological thriller around a tested couple …
After the doubly ossible success of “The Father” with Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, released in 2020, then overwhelming The Son (Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern), Florian Zeller will start the shooting of his third feature film in the fall.
Bunker will bring together the Spanish-American glamorous couple Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem. The original script is also written by Zeller. When Antonio, a famous Spanish architect installed with his family in London, receives a proposal as prestigious as morally ambiguous – to build a survivalist bunker on behalf of a tech billionaire -, his wife, Sofia, begins to question the foundations of their couple. After more than 17 years of common life, do they still have the same aspirations, the same dreams, the same values?
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-Psychological thriller
According to the American newspaper Deadline, which revealed the information, the psychological thriller explores the test of a couple in the face of the tensions of the world around them, and addresses the fears, the doubts and the dilemmas that this era poses to each of us. “I wanted to tell the story of a couple,” said Florian Zeller. And I immediately thought of Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who are not only extraordinary actors, but also one of the most iconic couples of our time. I wrote this script for them, animated by the desire to muddle the tracks between reality and fiction, and to be able to touch a powerful, authentic and unprecedented emotion. »»
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The two stars met in 1992, during the shooting of “Jamon, Jamon”. They have been living together since 2007 and have been married three years later. They have already shot several times jointly, especially in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, by Woody Allen, but it is the first time that they will be in front of the camera of a French director.
The shooting will take place between London and Madrid for a expected outing in 2026.
