Burnt Piano | Fred Schepisi

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Isabelle Huppert, Geoffrey Rush, Abbie Cornish and Ray Winstone Join Paris-Set Feature ‘Burnt Piano,’ Based on Australian Stage Play

A quartet of French, Australian and English stars are set to come together for upcoming feature “Burnt Piano.”

Isabelle Huppert (“Elle,” “The Piano Teacher”), Geoffrey Rush (“The King’s Speech,” “Shine”) Abbie Cornish (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” “Jack Ryan”) and Ray Winstone (“The Gentlemen,” “The Departed”) have joined the cast of the film, which is based on the stage play by Australian writer and playwright Justin Fleming. Newcomer Tarquin Cameron will also star.

Adapted by Fleming, the film — an Australian-French co-production — is being directed by Fred Schepisi (“Roxanne,” “Six Degrees of Separation”) and is described as “a tragedy, a comedy, a drama and a mystery.”

Set in the late 1980s, “Burnt Piano” revolves around a boutique bookstore owner (Cornish) who is infatuated with and would do anything to meet famed playwright Samuel Beckett (Rush), much to the chagrin of her father, a mediocre short story writer (Winstone). Reluctantly aided by her son troubled (Cameron) and vehemently resisted by the playwright’s devoted but overprotective wife (Huppert), she ropes her family into a quixotic quest to Paris to find ask Beckett himself some of life’s biggest questions.