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‘Holland’ Director Mimi Cave on Working With Nicole Kidman and Keeping Audiences Guessing: ‘Hopefully, You Don’t Know Who to Believe’
"Holland" director Mimi Cave discusses her experiences working with Nicole Kidman, staying ahead of the audience, and why the film is right for SXSW.
Mimi Cave was only in post-production on her debut feature — the 2022 horror film “Fresh,” with Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones — when she was approached about directing Nicole Kidman in “ Holland,” a screenplay by Andrew Sodorski that had been bouncing around the industry since it first appeared on the Black List in 2013. So she conscripts the school’s shop teacher, Dave Delgado (Gael García Bernal), to help her investigate him, even though she doesn’t really have much proof beyond her intuition — so the audience is left unsure about what is really driving her certainty that Fred is being unfaithful. Without spoiling anything, the movie has to walk a tricky line about keeping the audience unsure whether Nancy’s suspicions are valid or just all in her head — I thought both multiple times throughout.
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