{"id":287170,"date":"2026-02-12T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/287170\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T07:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:58:07","slug":"the-last-day-with-alicia-vikander-wagner-moura-boarded-by-westend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/287170\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Last Day,’ With Alicia Vikander, Wagner Moura, Boarded by WestEnd"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWestEnd Films<\/a> has acquired international sales rights to \u201cThe Last Day,\u201d the feature debut written and directed by artist Rachel Rose, and is releasing an exclusive first picture.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film stars Alicia Vikander<\/a>, an Oscar winner with \u201cThe Danish Girl,\u201d and Wagner Moura<\/a>, who is Oscar nominated for \u201cThe Secret Agent,\u201d alongside Victoria Pedretti, whose credits include \u201cEnemy of the People,\u201d \u201cPonyboi\u201d and \u201cThe Haunting of Hill House.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tInspired by Virginia Woolf\u2019s \u201cMrs. Dalloway,\u201d \u201cThe Last Day\u201d unfolds over a single summer\u2019s day in New York, where the lives of two mothers briefly intertwine. Julia, a writer and mother, is unsettled by creative stagnation, unprocessed grief and the approach of her daughter\u2019s adolescence. An unexpected encounter with Taylor \u2014 a labor and delivery nurse in the midst of a postpartum crisis pushes Julia to reconsider the life she has built, and whether she can rediscover herself within it.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, currently in post-production, is produced by Academy Award nominees Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler (\u201cPast Lives,\u201d \u201cMaterialists,\u201d \u201cMay December\u201d), and Mason Plotts (\u201cMay December,\u201d \u201cLate Fame\u201d) for Killer Films; David Kaplan (\u201cThe Brutalist,\u201d \u201cIt Comes at Night,\u201d \u201cIt Follows\u201d), Lucie Elwes and Rose. Maja Hoffmann and Lucas Hoffmann of Luma Projects serve as executive producers.<\/p>\n

\n\tHeads of department include director of photography Eric Yue (\u201cI Saw the TV Glow,\u201d \u201cA Thousand and One\u201d), editor Taylor Levy (\u201cBodies Bodies Bodies,\u201d \u201cA Different Man\u201d), costume designer April Napier (\u201cLady Bird,\u201d \u201cMay December,\u201d \u201cBooksmart\u201d) and Emmy Award-winning music supervisor Susan Jacobs (\u201cAmerican Hustle,\u201d \u201cI, Tonya,\u201d \u201cPromising Young Woman\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tRose is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work has been exhibited worldwide and is held in major public collections including LACMA, Tate Modern and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has participated in leading international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale and the Carnegie International, and is a recipient of the Frieze Artist Award.<\/p>\n

\n\tRose said: \u201cBecoming a mother felt to me like a collision between a beginning and a threat, and I knew I needed to write from the existential tension of that contradiction. In \u2018Mrs. Dalloway,\u2019 I was struck by how Virginia Woolf reveals Clarissa\u2019s self-erasure not through overt drama, but through the texture of a single, ordinary day \u2014 errands, chance encounters \u2014 until something immense has shifted inside her. That structure became my guide. This film follows two mothers over the course of one day, using its mundane rhythms to explore what it feels like to lose one\u2019s bearings, to experience rudderlessness and to reckon with how far, and how subtly, motherhood can carry us away from ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMaya Amsellem, managing director of WestEnd Films, added: \u201c\u2019The Last Day\u2019 is an intimate and powerful exploration of motherhood and identity, anchored by extraordinary performances from Alicia Vikander, Victoria Pedretti and Wagner Moura. Rachel brings a rare sensitivity and formal precision to the material, creating a film that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant. We are proud to be partnering on a project that speaks so eloquently to contemporary conversations around womanhood and creativity and we can\u2019t wait to share it with buyers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWestEnd Films is introducing \u201cThe Last Day\u201d to international buyers at the European Film Market. The film has been acquired under WeLove, WestEnd\u2019s label dedicated to developing and producing female-driven stories and championing female talent.<\/p>\n

\n\tCAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group co-represent North American rights on the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WestEnd Films has acquired international sales rights to \u201cThe Last Day,\u201d the feature debut written and directed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[69495,26263,146,85,46,397,119553,146736],"class_list":{"0":"post-287170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-alicia-vikander","9":"tag-berlin-film-festival","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-wagner-moura","15":"tag-westend-films"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}