{"id":15129,"date":"2017-04-01T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=15129"},"modified":"2017-04-02T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T02:08:00","slug":"ewan-mcgregor-stars-and-directs-american-pastoral-only-at-ayala-malls-cinemas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/04\/01\/ewan-mcgregor-stars-and-directs-american-pastoral-only-at-ayala-malls-cinemas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ewan McGregor stars and directs &#8216;American Pastoral&#8217;, only at Ayala Malls Cinemas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmerican Pastoral\u201d follows a family\u2019s idyllic existence that was shattered by social and political turmoil that will change the fabric of American culture forever. Ewan McGregor makes his directorial debut and stars as Seymour \u201cSwede\u201d Levov, a once legendary high school athlete who is now a successful businessman married to Dawn (Jennifer Connelly), a former beauty queen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15131\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/04\/poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/04\/poster.jpg 458w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/04\/poster-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Turmoil starts to brew beneath the polished veneer of Swede\u2019s life. When his beloved daughter, Merry (Dakota Fanning), disappears after being accused of committing a violent act, Swede dedicates himself to finding her and reuniting his family. What he discovers shakes him to the core, forcing him to look beneath the surface and confront the chaos that is shaping the modern world around him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15133\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/04\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/04\/2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/04\/2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15134\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/04\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/04\/3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/04\/3-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ewan McGregor, known for his wide-ranging roles in films spanning from the innovative and edgy \u201cTrainspotting 1 &amp; 2\u201d, \u201cVelvet Goldmine\u201d, and \u201cMoulin Rouge\u201d to acclaimed dramas \u201cGhost Writer\u201d and \u201cSalmon Fishing in the Yemen\u201d \u2014 was attached to play the central character of Swede in American Pastoral long before signing on to direct the film.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15132\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/04\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/04\/1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/04\/1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>McGregor knew this was a rare opportunity. Ultimately, it was his love of the material that led to his decision to take a leap into his feature film directorial debut. \u201cI was very moved by the script and I was completely taken by the Swede and the study of father daughter relationships,\u201d he says.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to direct, but I didn\u2019t want to just direct for the sake of it.\u00a0 I wanted to have a story that I was compelled to tell,\u201d McGregor explains.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"American Pastoral (2016 Movie) - Official Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/079zFCh81L4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An Ayala Malls Cinemas\u2019 exclusive presentation, \u201cAmerican Pastoral\u201d opens on April 5 at Glorietta 4 and Trinoma cinemas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a press release.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time Golden Globe\u00ae nominee Ewan McGregor stars and debuts as a director in the deeply affecting father-daughter story \u201cAmerican Pastoral\u201d based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Philip Roth that chronicles the profound changes in the last half-century of American life. The adaptation focuses in on the Swede\u2019s search for his daughter and the resonant themes of uncertainty, shifting fates, family and loss, that took the filmmakers nearly thirteen years to bring to the screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/04\/featured.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15135,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15129\/revisions\/15135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}