“What do you think happens when you die? What if it’s some extension or manifestation of your fears?” a woman asks her husband after her own death. The trailer for Tara Miele’s “Wander Darkly” sees the couple revisiting events throughout their relationship after Adrienne is killed in a car crash.
Per the film’s synopsis, Adrienne (Sienna Miller) and Matteo (Diego Luna) reunite in a “surreal state of being” somewhere between life and death, reliving the monumental and mundane parts of their life together. “Should we start from the beginning?” Matteo suggests. “Of time?” Adrienne replies. “Of us,” Matteo says.
Prior to its Sundance premiere this year, Miele told Women and Hollywood that she was inspired to make “Wander Darkly” after surviving a car wreck. “My husband and I were in a pretty bad crash several years ago — we’re fine, but I had blacked out after the impact and in the days afterwards, I was pretty concussed,” she explained. “At one point, I was laid up on the couch and calling to my six-month-old daughter in her bouncer nearby and she was ignoring me because six-month-olds do that, but for a moment I was sure that I had died in the crash and that I was just witnessing what came after. We would never move into the house we had just bought, and my mother would raise our children.” She added, “The moment passed, but the idea that the end could come so quickly and unforgivingly shook me.”
Miele’s other directorial work includes the backdoor pilot “Green Arrow and The Canaries” and episodes of “Arrow,” “Batwoman,” and “Hawaii Five-o.”
“American Woman,” “The Loudest Voice,” and “21 Bridges” are among Miller’s more recent credits.
“Wander Darkly” hits select theaters and VOD December 11. Miele penned the script.