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Alicia Vikander on her Vladimir Putin movie: ‘It is essential not to shut down conversation’

Alicia Vikander on her Vladimir Putin movie: ‘It is essential not to shut down conversation’

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It’s no wonder Alicia Vikander said yes to starring in The Wizard of the Kremlin – Olivier Assayas’s new political thriller about the turbulent beginnings of the Russian Federation. By the end of her first 10 minutes on screen, the Swedish actor has performed a punk rock song at a house party while holding a naked man on a leash, and been lowered from the rafters as some kind of metallic deity in a stage adaptation of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. “It’s a supporting role, but I get to have some very distinct moments,” she agrees, flashing a grin. Neither background nor the subject, hers is the kind of tricky, underwritten character that Vikander is able to make deftly three-dimensional with her mix of edge and subtle vulnerability. For years now, directors have sought her for exactly that kind of nuance. Now …

WestEnd Shopping ‘The Last Day’ With Alicia Vikander and Wagner Moura in Berlin, Reveals First Look

WestEnd Shopping ‘The Last Day’ With Alicia Vikander and Wagner Moura in Berlin, Reveals First Look

WestEnd Films is launching international sales in Berlin on The Last Day, the feature directorial debut of acclaimed visual artist Rachel Rose, toplined by Alicia Vikander, Wagner Moura and Victoria Pedretti. The London-based sales outfit unveiled a first-look image of the film, currently in post-production, at the European Film Market on Thursday as sales activity was getting underway. CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group are co-representing North American rights on the title. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, The Last Day unfolds over the course of a single summer day in New York, tracing a fleeting encounter between two mothers at moments of private reckoning. Vikander plays Julia, a writer grappling with creative paralysis, unresolved grief and the onset of her daughter’s adolescence. An unexpected encounter with Taylor (Pedretti), a labor and delivery nurse navigating a postpartum crisis, unsettles Julia’s hard-won equilibrium and forces her to reconsider the life she has constructed. Moura, currently nominated for an Oscar, co-stars as Julia’s husband, a steady but increasingly distant presence whose own tensions and blind …