Mercury in Retrograde

Mercury in Retrograde (2017)

Three couples from Chicago vacation for a weekend at a lakeside cabin in Michigan. Over the course of three days in this comedy/drama, hidden tensions and secrets slowly come to the surface.

Date of release
2017-09-16
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Michael Glover Smith

Casting

Interesting facts

Mercury in Retrograde is a 2017 American drama film written and directed by Michael Glover Smith, and starring French actress Roxane Mesquida. The film follows three couples from Chicago as they navigate personal challenges while vacationing together for a weekend in southwestern Michigan. The film premiered at the 2017 Full Bloom Film Festival in Statesville, North Carolina where it won the Best Narrative Feature award.

Background and production

In an interview at RogerEbert.com, Smith discussed the notion of vacations being "anything but an escape" as the impetus for the film: "The fact that the characters are away from their daily routine serves as a catalyst to examine their lives and relationships. These couples are interacting with each other [in this new setting] and it forces them to see their own relationships in a new light". He also mentioned German director F. W.

Production of the film took place over two weeks in Chicago and Fennville, Michigan in August 2016.

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