Two of my favorite actresses are coming together I think for the very first time. Vera Farmiga, who has finally broken out of her pattern of playing distraught housewives, will be joined by Elle Fanning in the indie drama, Pure Life. The coming of age drama features Fanning as a 13 year old girl "who desperately wants a romance like the kind in the Brat Pack movies. Mired in poverty with her brutally hard-working and short-tempered mother Trisch (Farmiga), Maya goes looking for a teen romance and finds a bad boy she deems worthy of taking her virginity." That description comes courtesy of The Playlist, who first broke the story.
That premise can go one of two ways: Either it'll be a cutesy flick where Fanning's character experiences all types of John Hughes-type events; or it can get pretty dark real quick, what with the whole losing of the virginity bit. I don't know enough about screenwriter Melora Donoghue or director Van Fischer to lean either way just yet.
Farmiga recently earned an Oscar nomination for her role in 2009's Up in the Air. She'll next be seen in Duncan Jones' sci-fi thriller, Source Code. Fanning is currently earning rave reviews for her role opposite Stephen Dorff in Sofia Coppola's indie drama, Somewhere.
