After being shown in its 353-minute entirety at the Sundance Film Festival, Jane Campion‘s latest ambitious work, Top of the Lake, will be split up into seven parts for easily digestible viewing this spring. Today our first look at footage has arrived in the form of four teasers, which each provide a brief glimpse at the crime mystery story.
Starring Mad Men‘s Elisabeth Moss, as well as Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan and David Wenham, the film follows a detective who is tasked with finding a pregnant 15-year-old daughter who goes missing. After strong reviews out of Sundance, we’re eager to see Campion’s delicate touch on this disturbing story and with just over a month until its premiere, we won’t have to wait long. Check out the four teasers below.
12 years old and 5 months pregnant, Tui Mitcham walks into a freezing lake … then disappears. Detective Robin Griffin returns home to investigate, but it’s not a simple missing persons case. In this breathtaking but remote mountain town, there are evil forces as powerful as the land itself. And those who offer a glimpse of paradise also provide a path to hell. Trapped where happiness and honest work are just out of reach, Griffin must not only find the girl but also face her own haunting past. With the men that she once left behind now standing in her way, every step closer to solving the case unearths a dangerous truth about herself.
Top of the Lake premieres on March 18th on the Sundance Channel.