{"id":305663,"date":"2026-02-28T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305663\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:23:07","slug":"alice-rohrwacher-casts-her-incestuous-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305663\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Rohrwacher casts her Incestuous Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long, arduous search, Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher has found her three incestuous sisters. Rohrwacher will direct Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley, and Josh O\u2019Connor in The Three Incestuous Sisters, based on the bestselling novel by Audrey Niffenegger. Rohrwacher wrote the script with Eileen author Ottessa Moshfegh, which <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/02\/dakota-johnson-jessie-buckley-three-incestuous-sisters-1236738365\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline reports<\/a> is a loose adaptation, so plot details are scant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, Niffenegger\u2019s 2005 adult fairy tale follows the sisters, Bettine, Ophile, and Clothilde, who move from their isolated home by sea to Paris. There, they meet a lighthouse keeper\u2019s son, who reportedly \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/2618114\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">profoundly affects each sister emotionally<\/a>.\u201d Like other works by Niffenegger, the book is a \u201cnovel in pictures\u201d that was compared to Edward Gorey. If the film follows any of that structure, we\u2019re going to go ahead and predict that O\u2019Connor plays the lighthouse keeper\u2019s son.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This marks Rohrwacher\u2019s second collaboration with O\u2019Connor, who starred in her last film, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/la-chimera-movie-review-1851330073\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Chimera<\/a>, as an emotionally distant and quasi-magical graverobber. In addition to great acclaim, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/la-chimera-ifc-center-25-weeks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the film enjoyed an impressive 25-week run at the IFC Center in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a long, arduous search, Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher has found her three incestuous sisters. Rohrwacher will direct&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-305663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}