With her creamy skin and regal bearing, Tilda Swinton is generally associated with chilly, intelligent characters. In other words, she’s not exactly the first actress one would picture in the role of an aging, irresponsible drunk. But then, Swinton has never been interested in resting on her laurels as an actress, which should at least partially explain why followed her Oscar-winning turn in Michael Clayton with this film. Of course, the chance to work with the gifted French filmmaker Erick Zonca surely must’ve played a part in her decision, especially since Zonca hadn’t made a film in nearly a decade and would be working outside France for the first time. As for the trailer itself, I’m of two minds about it. On the one hand, I’m not sure that I like the foregrounding of the kidnapping storyline, which sells the movie primarily as a thriller. But on the other hand, the biggest vibe I get from the trailer is that it doesn’t soft-pedal what a loser its title character really is, and even when we get to the kidnapping stuff, it feels like just something else that Julia got herself into. And of course Swinton looks awesome as usual. So yeah, I’m pretty excited about this one.