Breaking Baz: Marianne Elliott Makes Filmmaking Debut Taking A Winning Walk Along ‘The Salt Path’ With Gillian Anderson & Jason Isaacs – Toronto Film Festival
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Movie producers in Hollywood and London would court three-time Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott and ask her what she wanted to do.
She’d reply that what she really wanted to do was to film a story about an older woman who’s a protagonist. “They’d smile at me, and then I’d never hear from them again,” she says with a mischievous grin.
Let’s mark, then, The Salt Path — her film directorial debut, which was screened to press today at the Toronto Film Festival and will have it’s world premiere September 12 — as a win and a sock to those who rebuffed her efforts to tell stories about women who no longer are ingenues but something much more interesting: They’ve experienced and lived life.
The Salt Path stars Gillian Anderson, at the height of her powers, as Raynor “Ray” Winn, who learns two things in quick succession that will upend the life she shares with Moth (Jason Isaacs), her husband of over three decades.
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