Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher scored much acclaim for her first few films, including “Happy as Lazzaro” and “La Chimera”. Now, details have emerged on her next two projects.
First comes “Three Incestuous Sisters,” a currently filming loose adaptation of “The Time Traveller’s Wife” author Audrey Niffenegger’s illustrated book of the same name. The book follows three sisters who live in isolation and develop an unhealthy closeness.
The film version will star Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, and recent Oscar winner Jessie Buckley as the sisters, while Josh O’Connor will play a lighthouse keeper’s son whose arrival disrupts their dynamic. Mick Jagger will have a small role as the lighthouse keeper, while Isabella Rossellini also stars.
Rossellini recently posted video and photos from the island of Stromboli, where shooting appears to be taking place. The Film Stage also confirms it will be a silent (or nearly all silent) film and hears it may be in black-and-white. Hélène Louvart is serving as the cinematographer.
That’s not all though, Variety reports that Rohrwacher is already setting up her next feature, an adaptation of Italo Calvino’s 1957 coming-of-age fable “The Baron in the Trees”.
The story follows a 12-year-old baron named Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò who, after a dispute with his father, climbs up a tree and remains there for the rest of his life. Shooting on that film is expected to get underway in the back half of 2027.
