Though it feels like festival season is finally beginning in earnest, with Venice, TIFF, and the New York Film Festival all around the corner, the films from the year’s other, earlier festivals are now making their way to their wider releases. Next up is Josephine, which won both the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at Sundance earlier this year. The first trailer for the feature, which debuted this morning, doesn’t reveal too much about what actually happened off-screen—a welcome change, frankly, from the films that tell you their whole story in 90 seconds. But what we do get from the trailer is a bit of tone and some constantly-ratcheting-up tension, which one might not expect from a typical Channing Tatum joint.
The official synopsis reads:
Based on writer/director/producer Beth de Araújo’s own lived experiences, the film JOSEPHINE follows the psychological fallout after eight-year-old Josephine (Reeves) witnesses a crime in Golden Gate Park. As she acts out, her parents (Tatum and Chan) struggle with helping their daughter cope, while facing their own fears around the topic and how to address it with their child. JOSEPHINE is a story about a family as we have never seen before, featuring knockout performances from Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan.
Josephine hits theaters on November 20.