First Look at Bill Nighy in ‘A Town in Nova Scotia’
A first look at Babak Jalali‘s Billy Nighy-starring feature, A Town in Nova Scotia, has dropped ahead of Paradise City Sales launching worldwide sales at Cannes. His fifth film after presenting previous works in Locarno (Frontier Blues), Rotterdam (Radio Treams) and the Berlinale (Land), the Iranian director gained international recognition with Sundance’s Fremont. A Town in Nova Scotia is about a widowed Irish senior, Leon, played by the Love Actually star, who gets a plea from his daughter to join her in Nova Scotia. Instead, he launches a crusade to make his aging Liverpool building safer after news of a tower fire in London. On a mission alongside his neighbor and closest friend, Salah (Makram J Khoury), Leon turns their fellow residents’ quiet lives upside down in what is described as “a warm story of friendsip, stubbornness, and small acts of defiance.” The photo released Wednesday shows Nighy and Khoury riding a lakeside carousel. The film was co-written with Carolina Cavalli, who collaborated with Jalali on Fremont. Further creatives include production designer Paulina Rzeszowska, cinematographer …
