Mary-Louise Parker, Carrie-Anne Moss and others join Justine Bateman’s film project FACE

Mary Louise Parker (Weeds), Carrie-Anne Moss (The matrix franchising), Isabelle Fuhrman (The novice) And Liana Liberato (To the bone) were chosen to act Justine Batemanthe next feature film Face.

The film is based on Bateman’s 2021 novel Face: one square foot of skin. Bateman wrote the script for the film and will also direct the film.

The film “consists of 14 skits, both comic and dramatic, which look at the faces of aging women and why this angers people. While much of society seems to assume that women’s faces are somehow broken and need to be repaired, Face reveals some of the many ways women, and those around them, allow this idea to take root.

Parker will play the role of Tanya, “an actress who balances her need to use her face for her work and the pressure not to move her at all, with Moss as Ms. Foster, a kindergarten teacher whose young students. reminiscent of magic facial features. Fuhrman is ready for the role of Chris, a 30-year-old stunned by the warnings of the impending expiration of her attractiveness, with Liberato playing Jenny, a waitress determined to be successful with her looks, as she rejects the idea that those looks will never completely change.

As a father to two teenage girls, I see how society and social media influence how they see themselves and the pressure it puts on them regarding looking perfect. This looks like a wonderful film project that will carry a powerful message that many people will need to see.

Here is the description of the book:

Face is a fictional cartoon book that examines the fear and vestigial evolutionary habits that have led women and men to cultivate the imagined reality that older women’s faces are unattractive, undesirable, and something to “fix”.

Based on the experiences of the author’s “older face”, Justine Bateman, and those of dozens of women and men she interviewed, the book presents the reader with the many root causes of society’s often negative attitudes towards older faces. of women. In doing so, Bateman rejects those ingrained assumptions about the need to fix older women’s faces, suggesting that they move from judging someone’s worth based on the condition of her face.

With passionate prose and a sharp eye, Bateman argues that a woman’s confidence should grow with age, not be destroyed by society’s misguided attitude on that square foot of skin.

Source: Deadline