‘Went Up The Hill’: Ghost Story Starring Vicky Krieps & Dacre Montgomery Wraps Production, Releases First Look Image — AFM
24.10.2023 - 11:23
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EXCLUSIVE: Shooting has wrapped on Went Up the Hill, the psychological ghost story starring Cannes award winner Vicky Krieps and Stranger Things actor Dacre Montgomery.
Above is a first look at the Samuel Van Grinsven flick, which is headed for next week’s AFM via Bankside Films. Buyers in LA will be presented with a promo reel, with Bankside repping international sales and co-repping North American rights with CAA Media Finance.
The film was shot on location in New Zealand and was the latest collaboration between London-based Bankside and Causeway Films following their partnership on Danny & Michael Philippou’s Talk to Me, which is nearing $100M at the global box office. We first told you about it last year.
Went Up the Hill stars Montgomery as Jack and Krieps as Jill. Abandoned as a child, Jack ventures to remote New Zealand to attend the funeral of his estranged mother and there meets her grieving widow, Jill. But his search for answers becomes dangerous when his mother’s ghost returns to inhabit both Jack and Jill, using each of their bodies to speak to the other, and instigating a life-threatening nocturnal dance between the three of them.
The film is the second from New Zealand-born filmmaker Van Grinsven, who wrote the screenplay with Jory Anast. His first, also co-written by Anast, was Sequin in A Blue Room. It world premiered at the Sydney Film Festival in 2019, where it won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film. Van Grinsven is represented by RGM Artists Australia and Grandview in the U.S.
Krieps recently won the Best Actress award in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard for her role in Corsage, which was last year’s official Austrian entry for Oscars. She went on star in Martin Bourboulon’s The Three Musketeers; Vig