Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell head to Northern Ireland

Fifteen years after Faithless was nominated for a Palme D’Or, Liv Ullmann’s 6th film at the directing helm will release in the UK theatrically through Munro Films and digitally through Under The Milky Way, from 4th September 2015.

Based on August Strindberg’s play, and adapted for screen by Liv Ullmann, Miss Julie stars a multiple award winning cast, Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty, Interstellar), Colin Farrell (Saving Mr Banks, In Bruges) and Samantha Morton (Control, Minority Report). The film is produced by Synnøve Hørsdal (Happy Happy), Teun Hilte (Black Book) and Oliver Dungey.

Set in the 1880’s, Miss Julie depicts an intense and fierce battle for power and dominance between the troubled daughter of a baron and her father’s ambitious valet. Played out over one midsummer’s night in Ireland, Miss Julie (Chastain) and John (Colin Farrell) charm and manipulate each other. By turns seductive and bullying, savage and tender, their intimacy leads to desperate plans and visions of a life together. Unsure if the morning brings hope of hopelessness, Julie and John find their escape in a final act as sublime and horrific that befits a Greek tragedy.

Liv Ullmann is one of cinemas most respected and revered actresses. Credited with 11 leads in Ingmar Bergman’s films, including Persona, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage and Shame, the multiple award-winning actress has won recognition as a director of both stage and screen, helming feature films Sofie (1992) and Kristin Lavransdatter (1995), both of which she scripted, and Faithless (2000). In recent years she stage directed Cate Blanchett to extraordinary reviews in her sell-out production of A Streetcar Named Desire.