Ashleigh Hill-Buxton
Yahoo! Movies have today released the full theatrical trailer for Penelope Cruz’s latest film, “Twice Born”.
Based on the novel of the same name by Margaret Mazzantini, the film sees Cruz star as Italian profession Gemma, asingle mother who returns with her teenage son Pietro to present-day Sarajevo, where she met her son’s father, handsome American photographer Diego (Emile Hirsch) during the Bosnian conflict of the 1990’s.
Whilst she attempts to repair her fractured relationship with her son, new revelations force her to rethink everything.
The trailer promises us a love story told via many flashbacks that show us just how Gemma and Diego connected and how their relationship unfolded.
“Twice Born” also stars Adnan Haskovic, Saadet Askoy, Pietro Castellitto, Luca De Filippo, Jane Birkin, Sergio Castellitto, Mira Furlan and Jovan Divak.
The film will be released both theatrically and via video-on-demand on December 6th.
Check out the official synopsis of the film below:
Academy Award® winner Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Volver) and Emile Hirsch (Into The Wild, Killer Joe) star in TWICE BORN an epic family mystery that becomes a moving portrait of love, loyalty and the unbreakable bonds of motherhood in a time of war.
Based on the runaway European bestseller by Margaret Mazzantini, Twice Born begins as the Italian professor Gemma (Cruz) heads off on a summer vacation to the battle-scarred city of Sarajevo with her discontented teenaged son Pietro. She longs to show him the country where she fell passionately in love with his father, Diego (Hirsch) – but she is about to discover a long-hidden secret, one that will reveal far more to their knotted past than even her haunted memories can disclose.
Years before, when she herself was still a student, Gemma traveled to a very different Sarajevo, an electric, youthful city in the midst of the triumphant 1984 Winter Olympics. It was then that she began a heated love affair with the young American photographer Diego, drawn to his intense zest for life and art. For a time, she was compelled only by the all-consuming desire to start a family with him; but that desire would soon be complicated by her struggles to conceive, and her hopes of becoming a mother would in turn be interrupted by the coming of the brutal Balkan war and the longest violent siege of a city in modern history. In a series of transforming events, Gemma would finally make it back to Italy – but alone with an infant son who has never known the story of who he is or how he was born.
Roaming Sarajevo for the first time in 18 years, an unnerved Gemma at last begins to uncover the hidden truth of both the terrifying incidents and the remarkable acts of generosity that brought her and Pietro together — and now to a crossroads. In the face of a mother’s ultimate moral dilemma, she finds the redemptive power of love.
