It’s been a little more than a month since Millennium Entertainment picked up the thriller Trespass , which stars Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman as a couple defending their home against a ruthless gang of home invaders. Last week, very quietly, the company appears to have distributed the first poster for Joel Schumacher’s film. But when does intend to distribute the actual film ?
A not-uncommon prologue: Miranda July drives me crazy, in the best and worst ways. Whether I’m watching her films, reading her stories, or taking a crack at her various, Web-documented performances pieces, I can’t seem to get off the fence. I want to get off the fence. I want it so badly that attached to every primary response — every swing across the fence and back again — I experienced while watching The Future , the plangent follow-up to her 2005 feature debut, Me and You and Everyone We Know , was the secondary desire to shoulder-pin myself there, if only for clarity’s sake. What seems most difficult to accept and so tremendously inconvenient to her appeal is that the talking cat — or whatever other of her grindingly earnest narrative totems — is not negotiable; it’s not even regrettable. If you want Miranda July, you want the talking cat.