Mick Jagger returns to the cinema in a film by Alice Rohrwacher
He has just started filming Three Incestuous Sisters, the Italian filmmaker’s first English-language film.
After several years away from the sets, Mick Jagger is making an unexpected return to cinema under the direction of one of the most acclaimed European filmmakers of the moment.
The Rolling Stones singer joins the cast of Three Incestuous Sistersthe next gothic film from Alice Rohrwacher.
The rocker will share the bill with a particularly prestigious cast made up of Dakota Johnson, Josh O’Connor, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley and Isabella Rossellini.
Filming is currently underway on the volcanic island of Stromboli, off the coast of Sicily. According to several Italian media, Mick Jagger arrived there this week by helicopter. The singer would stay in a villa steeped in history, where Roberto Rossellini would have started his famous affair with Ingrid Bergman during the filming of Stromboli in 1949.
The film adapts the illustrated gothic novel by American author Audrey Niffenegger, known for its strange and disturbing atmosphere. The story follows three sisters living isolated from the world, whose balance will be upset by the arrival of the son of a lighthouse keeper. According to information not yet officially confirmed, Mick Jagger would play the lighthouse keeper, while his son would be played by Josh O’Connor.
No release date has yet been announced for Three Incestuous Sisterswhich will mark Alice Rohrwacher’s first English-language feature film. The Italian director has established herself as one of the great voices of contemporary auteur cinema thanks to The WondersGrand Prix at Cannes in 2014, then Happy like Lazzaroawarded the screenplay prize in 2018.
If Mick Jagger has appeared in around ten films since the 1970s, his appearances in the cinema have become very rare in the 21st century. His last one was The Burnt Orange Heresy by Giuseppe Capotondi, released in 2019.
