A woman’s life is unraveled when her friend goes missing in Earthquake Bird, the latest from writer/director Wash Westmoreland.
As an expat in Tokyo, Lucy is used to strange encounters. Culture clashes makes her stick out like a sore thumb, but it isn’t until a local photographer and a fellow expat catch her eye that things get out of hand. Their competing plays for attention put her at the center of a heated love triangle, and when one of them goes missing, the mystery threatens to bring down her carefully crafted life.
A throwback to late 80s/early 90s sexual thrillers, Earthquake Bird marks a change for pace for Westmoreland. He’s still sticking to a well-established genre as he did for the biopic Colette and the Alzheimer’s drama Still Alice, but this is a decidedly more salacious film, one that will grab attention for lurid reasons. Whether he can continue jumping between genres will be key to whether the film can ride the line between a titillating good time and trash.
He’s got an impressive cast to anchor the film around, headed by Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander. The other points on the triangle consist of Riley Keough and Naoki Kobayashi.
Earthquake Bird is directed by Wash Westmoreland and stars Alicia Vikander, Riley Keough, and Naoki Kobayashi. It will have a limited theatrical release in the US on November 1st and in the UK on November 8th. It will be released worldwide on Netflix on November 15th.
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