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Peter and John
Peter and John marks Jay Cravens eighth narrative film based in New England and it was nominated for a 2016 New England Emmy Award. The directors previous pictures include five collaborations with Vermont writer Howard Frank Mosher, among them Northern Borders, with Bruce Dern and Genevieve Bujold, Disappearances, with Kris Kristofferson, and Where the Rivers Flow North with Rip Torn, Tantoo Cardinal, and Michael J. Fox.
Peter and John is based on the 19th century novel Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant and its set in 1872 Nantucket, during the islands ghost period after the decline of whaling, before the rise of tourism, and in the New England shadow of the Civil War. The film tells the story of two brothers whose relationship strains when the younger one receives news of an unexpected inheritanceand both brothers become attracted to the same young woman who arrives on their island.
Maupassants novel was widely credited for helping to change the course of narrative fiction through its detailed psychological characterizations. Tolstoy and Nabokov both cited the novel as an influence. In a letter to his brother Theo, Vincent Van Gogh cited Maupassant for the visual power of the novels detailed seaside setting. Henry James wrote, Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever and he called Pierre et Jean a masterly little novel for its potent themes of family, status, self-discovery and the lengths to which someone will go to reveal or suppress the truth.
A film trailer can be seen at: https://vimeo.com/116906319
Peter and John stars 2014 Golden Globe winner Jacqueline Bisset (Bullitt, Truffauts Day for Night); Christian Coulson (The Hours, Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets, Nashville); Shane Patrick Kearns (Blue Collar Boys); Diane Guerrero (Orange is the New Black, Jane the Virgin); and Emmy-winner Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue, Matewan, Eight Men Out, Glengarry Glen Ross).
Peter and John was shot on Nantucket and it was produced through the Movies From Marlboro (MfM) program, a biennial film intensive semester jointly produced by Marlboro College and Kingdom County Productions. Craven recently completed principal photography on a 2019 production based on Jack Londons autobiographical novel, Martin Eden.
Jay Cravens seven feature films have played 58 countries and 73 festivals, including Sundancewith special screenings at The Smithsonian, Lincoln Center, Le Cinémathèque Française, the Constitutional Court of Johannesburg, and others. Cravens commitment to New England place-based filmmaking was recently profiled by Orion Magazine that wrote: Jay Craven has come closer than any other filmmaker to realizing (American poet, essayist, and film theorist) Vachel Lindsays dream of a vital regional cinema that embodies the character and genius of a place in all its mystery, magnificence, and pain.
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15 Kimball Hill Rd
Putney, VT 05346
United States
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