Naomi Kawase, Geraldine Chaplin Board Luis Minarro’s ‘Impalpable’

“Impalpable” will be a fantasy drama with humour, and surrealistic and political touches, Minarro said. Stretch over three days and two nights, its characters get to know one another, as the audience enters the minds of main characters, unleashing what amounts to mini-movies via flashbacks or flash-forwards.

In one of these flashback segments, focused on Geraldine Chaplin’s character, the feature will offer some lesser known or unknown family memories “which will have an added interest for cinephiles”, he added. The character to be played by Geraldine Chaplin, daughter of cinema icon Charlie Chaplin, the first of eight children with fourth wife, actor Oona O’Neill, will mix fictional and real-life aspects of her life. Kawase’s character will be entirely fictitious.

Kawase competes at this year’s San Sebastian with the Playtime-sold adoption drama “True Mothers”, a Cannes Official Selection label title. The Japanese director created the biennial International Nara Film Festival, which runs this year from September 18 to September 22.