Tackling mental health on screen can be a tricky proposition, on that should be handled sensitively. There's hope for Losing Clementine, which will deal with the subject, and that already has Jessica Chastain aboard. It now also features Edgar Ramirez.
With Better Call Saul's Ann Cherkis on script duty (adapting Ashley Ream's novel) and Lucía Puenzo directing, Chastain plays world-renowned artist and sharp-tongued wit Clementine Pritchard. She is bipolar and with her 36th birthday rapidly approaching, she’s decided she’s done. After flushing away her meds, she gives herself thirty days to tie up loose ends—to finish one last painting, make nice with her ex-husband (Ramirez), and find a new home for her cat. Through humor and wit, she checks the tasks off her To-Do list, however, she uncovers secrets about her family and the tragedy that befell her mother and sister. In an ending no one will see coming, will we lose Clementine or will we find her? Ramirez will play her ex-husband and true love.
The cameras should be rolling this January in Los Angeles, and the film will mark a reunion for Chastain and Ramirez after they appear together in spy thriller The 355, which just put a trailer out.