EXCLUSIVE: Louis Partridge, the English actor best known for Enola Holmes and House of Guinness, will star in and produce the coming-of-age indie film One Last Summer.
Partridge will be joined by Mia Jenkins (Love Me Love Me, Geek Girl) and Jude Carmichael (Dear England at The National Theatre), with further cast to be announced.
Written and directed by Misha Citron, whose credits include Enola Holmes, filming on One Last Summer wrapped in Tuscany, Italy. Partridge and Citron have co-founded Pipe Dream Films, which housed the One Last Summer production.
Here’s the logline: “Set over a weekend in the Tuscan countryside, One Last Summer follows Milo (Partridge), who returns to the house of his late, estranged father with his best friend Zac (Carmichael).
“Milo is convinced into a double date with two American travellers that starts strong but sharply unravels. Each character must reckon with their past selves, who they are now, and what they’re leaving behind in Italy. The film captures the intensity of brief relationships in youth.”
Jim Parks, producer of Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers, produces alongside Maya Nurmohamed and Saskia Steinberg of Blue Lobster Productions.
Partridge said: “As an actor and a first-time producer, I loved leaning into true creative collaboration. Our aim being to make the film for ourselves, as young people to enjoy first and foremost. In doing so we hope to create something simultaneously specific and with universal scope.”
Citron added: “I wanted to create a dynamic between the ensemble that reflected the charge and intimacy of youth, feeling the sweetness of attraction that is cruelly muddied by inevitable insecurity, fear, and, often unfortunately at this age, grief.”
Partridge is repped by Independent Talent Group and WME. Jenkins is repped by Alexander Cooke at B-Side Management & Alissa Vradenburg at Untitled Entertainment. Carmichael is repped by Alexi Stylianou at 42 Management & Production.