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SISTER CARRIE is an epic love story with a dark twist that takes place in Chicago, Montréal, and Paris in 1919. The film is written and directed by Daniel Nearing, the inaugural Filmmaker in Residence for the City of Chicago, and introduces Eve Rydberg as Carrie and world-renowned ballet dancer Fabrice Calmels as Armand Duval.
SISTER CARRIE is English in its American sequences and French in its sequences set in Québec and France. The feature adaptation is a hybrid narrative drawn from multiple literary sources, including three proto-feminist novels. It takes its name from Theodore Dreiser’s landmark Chicago novel (1900), but draws also from Alexandre Dumas’ (Fils) “La Dame aux Camélias,” Abbé Prévost’s “Manon Lescaut,” and Sherwood Anderson’s “Brothers.”
SISTER CARRIE is from the makers of the multilingual, multiracial HOGTOWN , called "the most original film made in Chicago about Chicago to date" by the Chicago Sun-Times and named one of the 10 Best Films of 2016 by Ben Kenigsberg of The New York Times, and of CHICAGO HEIGHTS , named by Roger Ebert to his last list of Best Art Films.
Sister Carrie traverses three centuries of romantic literature only to fall on the sword of the identity politics of the 21st. The film is both a celebration and an unflinching indictment of the male gaze.
In production (2018) with the support of the The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, The Puffin Foundation, the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Illinois Arts Council.
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LOVE IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE
OF HOW LITTLE REALITY MEANS TO US.
– Marcel Proust
Producer: Philip Larkin
Executive Producer: Robert Gecht
Co-Producers:
Fabrice Calmels
Angela J. Latham
Associate Producers:
Jay Disney
Eve Rydberg
Costume Designer:
Angela J. Latham
Editor: Philip Larkin
Cinematography: Nathaniel Walker
Gaffer and Crew Chief: Donald Winter
Additional Cinematography: Jason Knade
Communication & Marketing: Lisa Klein
Effects Editor: Kat Quintian
Composers:
Paul Bhasin
Fabrice Calmels
Choreography:
Nicolas Blanc
Fabrice Calmels
CAST
Carrie - Eve Rydberg
Armand Duval - Fabrice Calmels
The Foreman - Cameron Knight
Simone Duval - Sylvie Sardenac
Lola - Sarah Weis
Uriah - Seth McClellan
Minnie - Lindsay Ashcroft
The Foreman's Wife - Roshaunda Ross-Orta
French Translation:
Augustin Cambeau
Fabien Brucy
Morgane LePage
Sarah Mancel
Research: John J. Nearing
Grip: Sarah Mancel
Production Assistants:
April Hornsby
Veena Zerang
Thanks
Jay Disney
Herman Wilkins
Larisa Elizondo
Dirk Fletcher
Rich Moskal
Beckie Stochetti
Thavery Crouch
William Schopf
Konstantinos Armiros
Sabrina Doyle
Keisha Dyson
Rudy Thauberger
Rachel Rozycki
Kathy Byrne
Sanghoon Lee
Todd Turina
J.A. Glass
Suzanne Patterson
Richard Dubugnon
Paula Hendrickson
Maria Finitzo
Sandy Boyd
Nick Kallis
Elaine Maimon
Andrae Marak
Lori Montalbano
Rhonda Jackson
Raphaël Berdugo
Maeggie Maillet
Francis Palluau
Dawn Friedman
Steve Kalb
Ryan Oestreich
The Music Box Theatre
The Chicago Cultural Center
The Illinois Railway Museum
Old Jail / Sheriff’s House, Crown Point, IN
The Chicago Film Office
Governors State University DPS
The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
The MacDowell Colony
The Puffin Foundation
The Art Institute of Chicago
Canon USA
This project is partially supported by an Individual Artists Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events and Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Shot on Location in:
Chicago, Illinois
Paris, France
Auvers-sur-Oise and Petit-Jean, France
Crown Point, Indiana
Montréal, Québec
Sparta and Delphi, Greece
Viareggio, Italy
“She was a prism through which sorrow
could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer,
Everything Is Illuminated
