If you can get past that silly title, which sounds like it came from a Netflix movie title generator, this trailer for Earthquake Bird is actually pretty intriguing. The latest film from director Wash Westmoreland, whose credits include acclaimed dramas Still Alice and Colette, is a psychological thriller for Netflix starring Alicia Vikander and Riley Keough—and honestly, what else do you need to add this to your queue? Okay, here’s the story: Vikander plays a stony expat who lives in Japan and falls for darkly eccentric photographer who may or may not be obsessed with her to an uncomfortable degree. Keough plays an American woman who enters the picture in the midst of this budding romance and complicates things exponentially. And then she goes missing. Cue the suspenseful music!
Here’s the more official synopsis for Earthquake Bird, which will screen in select theaters on November 1 ahead of its November 15 debut on Netflix:
A psychologically unsettling and atmospheric thriller set in 1989 Tokyo from director Wash Westmoreland (Colette, Still Alice), Earthquake Bird follows Lucy Fly (Alicia Vikander), an enigmatic expat haunted by a painful past, who enters into an intense relationship with Teiji (Naoki Kobayashi), a handsome yet similarly troubled local photographer. Lucy’s imperturbable exterior begins to crack when a naive newcomer, Lily Bridges (Riley Keough), becomes entangled in their lives and ends up missing – suspected dead.
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They should have called it ‘Honk if You’re Horny’
2 of my 3 hollywood crushes in 1 movie. In.
well now I need to know the third?
alexandra daddario
I’ve met her — she has really nice eyes.
Does the bird cause earthquakes?…and if so, why does that not factor into the synopsis?
This makes me hopeful for my movie Volcano House Cat.
Good title. Maybe you can get Johnny Whitaker from A Talking Cat!?! to co-star.
I’m working on the sequel, Sinkhole Racoon.
I imagine that it references birds that take off just before an earthquake. A sign that something bad is about to happen.
So Riley Keough is going to be cast as the beautiful and interesting girl who eventually goes missing from now on?
Recently saw Under The Silver Lake, did not care for it.
Recently saw Under The Silver Lake, did not care for it That’s nice to hear, actually – I recently started watching it on Prime, got about 20 minutes in. Thought about finishing or even starting over but just could not muster interest enough…
You’re not missing much if you don’t finish it.
Huh. I wonder if this will be one of the very good Alicia Vikander movies, or one of the atrociously awful Alicia Vikander movies. The trailer looks intriguing, but it could certainly still turn out to be a huge mess.