Isabella Rossellini Set for Alice Rohrwacher’s ‘Three Incestuous Sisters’ Alongside Previously Announced Cast Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley, Josh O’Connor

Isabella Rossellini is set to star in Italian director Alice Rohrwacher‘s adaptation of U.S. author Audrey Niffenegger’s novel “Three Incestuous Sisters,” alongside previously announced cast members Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor.

The film marks the first English-language feature by Rohrwacher who is a two-time Cannes prizewinner with “The Wonders” (2014) and “Happy as Lazzaro” (2018). Rohrwacher is currently shooting “Three Incestuous Sisters” on the island of Stromboli off the coast of Sicily.

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Stromboli is where Isabella’s father Roberto Rossellini in 1949 famously began his scandalous affair with her mother Ingrid Bergman on the set of his film by the same title.

Rohrwacher’s most recent feature is “La Chimera” (2023) that also starred Rossellini along with O’Connor and competed in Cannes. “La Chimera” was released in the U.S. by Neon and sold widely around the world. Rohrwacher was honored earlier this year with the European Film Academy’s Achievement in World Cinema Award.

Rohrwacher and U.S. writer Ottessa Moshfegh (“Eileen”) have co-written the “Three Incestuous Sisters” screenplay based on the illustrated gothic novel about three sisters living in isolation, whose relationship is disrupted by the arrival of a lighthouse keeper’s son. Other plot details are being kept under wraps.

The film is financed and produced by Indian Paintbrush. Johnson and Ro Donnelly are producing for Johnson’s TeaTime Pictures, along with Steven Rales for Indian Paintbrush. Rohrwacher is also producing. The Italian line producer is Fandango. Principal photography on “Three Incestuous Sisters” started in April with ten weeks of shooting planned in Stromboli and Rome.