Elsa Zylberstein, the French actor-producer whose timely movie “Simone: Woman of a Century” was recently released in the U.S., has signed with CAA for representation.
The actor’s performance as Simone Veil, an Auschwitz survivor who became a feminist icon and human rights activist, earned critical praise and struck a chord with French audiences, becoming one of the highest-grossing French films of 2022.
Distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films in the U.S., Olivier Dahan’s biopic sheds light on how Veil became a revered figure within France’s male-dominated political world after surviving the camps, championing the 1975 law that legalized abortion in France. The Holocaust Museum in L.A. will host a special screening of the movie on Nov. 29 in the presence of Zylberstein. A similar event is also being organized in Washington, D.C.
The actor has also launched production vehicles in France and the U.S. to develop...
The actor’s performance as Simone Veil, an Auschwitz survivor who became a feminist icon and human rights activist, earned critical praise and struck a chord with French audiences, becoming one of the highest-grossing French films of 2022.
Distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films in the U.S., Olivier Dahan’s biopic sheds light on how Veil became a revered figure within France’s male-dominated political world after surviving the camps, championing the 1975 law that legalized abortion in France. The Holocaust Museum in L.A. will host a special screening of the movie on Nov. 29 in the presence of Zylberstein. A similar event is also being organized in Washington, D.C.
The actor has also launched production vehicles in France and the U.S. to develop...
- 11/14/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Zylberstein unveils ambitious new slate of female-driven titles.
Isabel Coixet is in talks to direct Happy People Read And Drink Coffee, an adaptation of Agnes Martin-Lugand’s best-selling novel of the same name for Elsa Zylberstein’s fast-growing production company Sonia Films.
Mediawan Pictures is in advanced talks to co-produce the English and French-language film set between Paris and Ireland and is about a woman grieving her husband and daughter when a new love affair blossoms.
Zylberstein is also set to star in what is the latest project to be added to her female-focused film and TV slate.
The renowned French actress,...
Isabel Coixet is in talks to direct Happy People Read And Drink Coffee, an adaptation of Agnes Martin-Lugand’s best-selling novel of the same name for Elsa Zylberstein’s fast-growing production company Sonia Films.
Mediawan Pictures is in advanced talks to co-produce the English and French-language film set between Paris and Ireland and is about a woman grieving her husband and daughter when a new love affair blossoms.
Zylberstein is also set to star in what is the latest project to be added to her female-focused film and TV slate.
The renowned French actress,...
- 8/23/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Zylberstein unveils ambitious new slate of female-driven titles.
Isabel Coixet has signed to direct Happy People Read And Drink Coffee, an adaptation of Agnes Martin-Lugand’s best-selling novel of the same name for Elsa Zylberstein’s fast-growing production company Sonia Films.
Mediawan Pictures is in advanced talks to co-produce the English and French-language film set between Paris and Ireland and is about a woman grieving her husband and daughter when a new love affair blossoms.
Zylberstein is also set to star in what is the latest project to be added to her female-focused film and TV slate.
The renowned French actress,...
Isabel Coixet has signed to direct Happy People Read And Drink Coffee, an adaptation of Agnes Martin-Lugand’s best-selling novel of the same name for Elsa Zylberstein’s fast-growing production company Sonia Films.
Mediawan Pictures is in advanced talks to co-produce the English and French-language film set between Paris and Ireland and is about a woman grieving her husband and daughter when a new love affair blossoms.
Zylberstein is also set to star in what is the latest project to be added to her female-focused film and TV slate.
The renowned French actress,...
- 8/23/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Elsa Zylberstein (“Simone: Woman of the Century”) will star as the French feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir in a feature film that will be penned by Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton and directed by Anne Fontaine.
Zylberstein’s Sonia Films will produce the film with Philippe Carcassone’s banner Cine@ and Master Movie, the production vehicle of Marco and Lola Pacchioni.
Rather than a biopic, the movie will revolve around the passionate transatlantic romance between de Beauvoir and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nelson Algren.
Zylberstein has scooped the adaptation rights of de Beauvoir’s “Lettres à Nelson Algren” from Gallimard. Through those letters, the film will chart the pair’s affair, which spanned nearly two decades from 1947, in the aftermath of World War II, to 1964. Two-thirds of the movie will take place in Chicago, and the reminder will unfold in Paris.
Zylberstein said Hampton has penned a treatment and is expected to...
Zylberstein’s Sonia Films will produce the film with Philippe Carcassone’s banner Cine@ and Master Movie, the production vehicle of Marco and Lola Pacchioni.
Rather than a biopic, the movie will revolve around the passionate transatlantic romance between de Beauvoir and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nelson Algren.
Zylberstein has scooped the adaptation rights of de Beauvoir’s “Lettres à Nelson Algren” from Gallimard. Through those letters, the film will chart the pair’s affair, which spanned nearly two decades from 1947, in the aftermath of World War II, to 1964. Two-thirds of the movie will take place in Chicago, and the reminder will unfold in Paris.
Zylberstein said Hampton has penned a treatment and is expected to...
- 4/11/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton is in talks to write a screenplay with French director Anne Fontaine about iconic feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nelson Algren’s transatlantic affair.
The playwright and screenwriter, who has won Oscars for The Father (2021) and Dangerous Liaisons (1989) and was also nominated for Atonement (2008), revealed he was in the early stages of the project during a masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event on Monday.
“We had an initial discussion followed by a more detailed discussion a week ago. I really want to do it,” he told Deadline in an interview after the talk.
De Beauvoir and Algren met in Chicago in 1947 and immediately embarked on a passionate affair that endured for more than 20 years in spite of the complications of transatlantic travel and communication at the time.
Paris-based intellectual de Beauvoir was in the midst of completing her seminal...
The playwright and screenwriter, who has won Oscars for The Father (2021) and Dangerous Liaisons (1989) and was also nominated for Atonement (2008), revealed he was in the early stages of the project during a masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event on Monday.
“We had an initial discussion followed by a more detailed discussion a week ago. I really want to do it,” he told Deadline in an interview after the talk.
De Beauvoir and Algren met in Chicago in 1947 and immediately embarked on a passionate affair that endured for more than 20 years in spite of the complications of transatlantic travel and communication at the time.
Paris-based intellectual de Beauvoir was in the midst of completing her seminal...
- 3/13/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Chicago – When Michael Caplan began his journey creating the film biography of legendary Chicago author Nelson Algren, he was a self-described “fan” but not much else. After spending several years with the man who wrote “The Man with the Golden Arm,” Michael Caplan has certainly got to know him well.
Caplan has produced a long overdue comprehensive documentary on writer Nelson Algren that gets into the weeds of his amazing life as an outlier and chronicler of the dispossessed. After graduating college during the Depression, Algren spent time as a drifter and collected the experiences – along with observations in his eventual Chicago ne’er-do-well west side neighborhood – that became his run of literary classics. This includes “The Neon Wilderness,” “The Man with the Golden Arm,” “A Walk on the Wild Side” and “Chicago: The City on the Make,” not to mention an infamous affair with French feminist author Simone De Beauvoir.
Caplan has produced a long overdue comprehensive documentary on writer Nelson Algren that gets into the weeds of his amazing life as an outlier and chronicler of the dispossessed. After graduating college during the Depression, Algren spent time as a drifter and collected the experiences – along with observations in his eventual Chicago ne’er-do-well west side neighborhood – that became his run of literary classics. This includes “The Neon Wilderness,” “The Man with the Golden Arm,” “A Walk on the Wild Side” and “Chicago: The City on the Make,” not to mention an infamous affair with French feminist author Simone De Beauvoir.
- 11/1/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review on the new documentary film “Algren” – regarding iconic Chicago author and character, Nelson Algren – in select theaters and through Video on Demand.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
This long overdue comprehensive documentary on writer Nelson Algren gets into the weeds of his amazing life as an outlier and chronicler of the dispossessed. After graduating college during the Depression, he spent time as a drifter and collected the experiences – along with observations in his eventual Chicago ne’er-do-well west side neighborhood – that became his run of literary classics. This includes “The Neon Wilderness,” “The Man with the Golden Arm,” “A Walk on the Wild Side” and “Chicago: The City on the Make,” not to mention an infamous affair with French feminist author Simone De Beauvoir.
“Algren” is currently in select theaters and through Video on Demand, including Chicago’s Music Box Theatre Direct, click here. Directed by Michael Caplan.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
This long overdue comprehensive documentary on writer Nelson Algren gets into the weeds of his amazing life as an outlier and chronicler of the dispossessed. After graduating college during the Depression, he spent time as a drifter and collected the experiences – along with observations in his eventual Chicago ne’er-do-well west side neighborhood – that became his run of literary classics. This includes “The Neon Wilderness,” “The Man with the Golden Arm,” “A Walk on the Wild Side” and “Chicago: The City on the Make,” not to mention an infamous affair with French feminist author Simone De Beauvoir.
“Algren” is currently in select theaters and through Video on Demand, including Chicago’s Music Box Theatre Direct, click here. Directed by Michael Caplan.
- 10/19/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Matt Dillon (“The House That Jack Built”) and Charlotte Gainsbourg are attached to star in Fred Garson’s “An Ocean Apart,” a period drama about the romantic affair between French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir and American writer Nelson Algren.
The film is being developed by French producer Olivier Delbosc at Curiosa Films, which is presenting Xavier Giannoli’s Venice competition player “Lost Illusions” and Yvan Attal’s “Les choses humaines,” and Matthew Gledhill at Wheelhouse Prods. Dillon is at Venice with “Land of Dreams,” screening in the Horizons section, and Gainsbourg stars in “Les choses humaines,” unspooling out of competition.
Set during the late 1940s in Paris and Chicago, “An Ocean Apart” was written by Ron Riley in collaboration with Garson and Claire Barré. The film charts the fiery yet mostly letter-based relationship between Beauvoir and Algren that spanned from 1947 to 1964. Algren, who was Jewish, is best known for the...
The film is being developed by French producer Olivier Delbosc at Curiosa Films, which is presenting Xavier Giannoli’s Venice competition player “Lost Illusions” and Yvan Attal’s “Les choses humaines,” and Matthew Gledhill at Wheelhouse Prods. Dillon is at Venice with “Land of Dreams,” screening in the Horizons section, and Gainsbourg stars in “Les choses humaines,” unspooling out of competition.
Set during the late 1940s in Paris and Chicago, “An Ocean Apart” was written by Ron Riley in collaboration with Garson and Claire Barré. The film charts the fiery yet mostly letter-based relationship between Beauvoir and Algren that spanned from 1947 to 1964. Algren, who was Jewish, is best known for the...
- 9/4/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Orson Welles thankfully didn’t live to see a world in which conversation around his work has devolved into Tomatometer-related banter, but as an extensive search gets underway for one of the most prized, long-lost possessions of his oeuvre, hopefully we’ll emerge from this critical nadir. In the meantime, a timely documentary narrated by the Citizen Kane diretor has been restored and is arriving next month, on May 21, for the 40th anniversary of its U.S. premiere.
Wieland Schulz-Keil’s New Deal for Artists, digitally remastered from the 16mm negative, explores the history behind a section of Fdr’s New Deal Program that provided economic relief and jobs for artists following the Great Depression. The most ambitious government-supported arts program since the Italian Renaissance as it resulted in providing work for over 10,000 artists, the program was soon targeted by Republicans’ aggressive anti-communist agendas as the House Un-American Activities Committee came to fruition.
Wieland Schulz-Keil’s New Deal for Artists, digitally remastered from the 16mm negative, explores the history behind a section of Fdr’s New Deal Program that provided economic relief and jobs for artists following the Great Depression. The most ambitious government-supported arts program since the Italian Renaissance as it resulted in providing work for over 10,000 artists, the program was soon targeted by Republicans’ aggressive anti-communist agendas as the House Un-American Activities Committee came to fruition.
- 4/28/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah director Adam Benzine: “It’s really a film about how Shoah was the making of Claude Lanzmann.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
When Claude Lanzmann passed away in Paris on the morning of July 5, 2018, Arnaud Desplechin and Antonin Baudry sent tributes in honour of the man who directed the documentaries Shoah, The Last Of The Unjust, Napalm, Israel, Why, and Shoah: Four Sisters (Les Quatre Soeurs). Adam Benzine’s revealing Oscar-nominated Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah shows us the man who was behind the making of one of the most important films in the history of cinema.
Adam Benzine with Anne-Katrin Titze on Claude Lanzmann: “He fought in the resistance as a teenager, he was a lover of Simone de Beauvoir, he was in Algeria with Sartre and Nelson Algren.”
After Adam interviewed Albert Maysles, Robert Drew, Michael Apted, D A Pennebaker for a book on documentarians,...
When Claude Lanzmann passed away in Paris on the morning of July 5, 2018, Arnaud Desplechin and Antonin Baudry sent tributes in honour of the man who directed the documentaries Shoah, The Last Of The Unjust, Napalm, Israel, Why, and Shoah: Four Sisters (Les Quatre Soeurs). Adam Benzine’s revealing Oscar-nominated Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah shows us the man who was behind the making of one of the most important films in the history of cinema.
Adam Benzine with Anne-Katrin Titze on Claude Lanzmann: “He fought in the resistance as a teenager, he was a lover of Simone de Beauvoir, he was in Algeria with Sartre and Nelson Algren.”
After Adam interviewed Albert Maysles, Robert Drew, Michael Apted, D A Pennebaker for a book on documentarians,...
- 4/3/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In 1975, Lou Reed gave Andy Warhol a Basf C-90 cassette. One side was a mix of live Reed songs recorded at recent tour dates. The other was an apparently homemade demo of a dozen songs based on his friend and mentor’s newly-published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B & Back Again, published the same year. The idea, it seems, was to sketch out a kind of musical theater piece. The notion wasn’t new to Reed: The previous year, he’d tried unsuccessfully to enlist Warhol in...
- 12/19/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
Update: A former bookkeeper who embezzled millions of dollars from a major literary agency has been sentenced to two years in federal prison.
Darin Webb was convicted of stealing from the New York-based firm of Donadio & Olson. The firm represents authors James Hynes, Chuck Palahniuk and Rick DeMarinis, as well as the estates of Robert Stone, Mario Puzo, Frank Conroy, Nelson Algren, Peter Matthiesen and Studs Terkel.
“This chain of events leaves me close to broke,” Palahniuk said in court papers. “Since the crime was uncovered, people have offered their children’s college funds. They’ve offered to mortgage their houses to keep me afloat. They’ve come forward with legal advice and stop-gap, hands-on help.”
Palahniuk lost more than $1.4 million in royalties and advances in Webb’s theft, estimated at more than $3.4 million from the agency. Donadio & Olson was forced to file for bankruptcy last month.
“Webb’s actions...
Darin Webb was convicted of stealing from the New York-based firm of Donadio & Olson. The firm represents authors James Hynes, Chuck Palahniuk and Rick DeMarinis, as well as the estates of Robert Stone, Mario Puzo, Frank Conroy, Nelson Algren, Peter Matthiesen and Studs Terkel.
“This chain of events leaves me close to broke,” Palahniuk said in court papers. “Since the crime was uncovered, people have offered their children’s college funds. They’ve offered to mortgage their houses to keep me afloat. They’ve come forward with legal advice and stop-gap, hands-on help.”
Palahniuk lost more than $1.4 million in royalties and advances in Webb’s theft, estimated at more than $3.4 million from the agency. Donadio & Olson was forced to file for bankruptcy last month.
“Webb’s actions...
- 12/23/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Sitting in a stack of pulpy old crime novels and lascivious short stories of hookers, gangsters and freaks may be a diamond in the rough. The book is about a heroin addict named “Frankie Machine”, it won the National Book Award in 1950, and Otto Preminger’s film adaptation starred Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak.
The book and the film, “The Man With the Golden Arm”, may ring a bell, but its author, Nelson Algren, is still buried in that stack of old books.
In the new documentary Algren, which got its premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival on October 14, Nelson Algren is in the company of Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson. But his name has been forgotten, least of all in Chicago where he called home.
Since Algren’s heyday in the late ‘40s and ‘50s, his work’s legacy has seen the same pitiful fate...
The book and the film, “The Man With the Golden Arm”, may ring a bell, but its author, Nelson Algren, is still buried in that stack of old books.
In the new documentary Algren, which got its premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival on October 14, Nelson Algren is in the company of Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson. But his name has been forgotten, least of all in Chicago where he called home.
Since Algren’s heyday in the late ‘40s and ‘50s, his work’s legacy has seen the same pitiful fate...
- 10/21/2014
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Audience Q&As at a film festival can be a mixed bag. At the World Premiere screening for Tuesday night’s Algren, a man waved at Director Michael Caplan, who recognized the man from a coffee shop earlier in the day. During the Q&A for Red Army, Director Gabe Polsky charmingly asked his grandmother (correction: Babushka), in Russian, what she thought of his movie.
On the other side of the coin, they can result in tedious questions (and even more tedious answers) about getting licensing for archival material or audience members outright interrupting and berating the director, like a man who asked about the “sociology” behind Russian athletics. Sometimes people just like to hear themselves talk.
In fairness, it takes finesse to ask the right questions and tailor the right answers so you can tell a good story. This holds true for the two documentaries I watched Tuesday night at Ciff.
On the other side of the coin, they can result in tedious questions (and even more tedious answers) about getting licensing for archival material or audience members outright interrupting and berating the director, like a man who asked about the “sociology” behind Russian athletics. Sometimes people just like to hear themselves talk.
In fairness, it takes finesse to ask the right questions and tailor the right answers so you can tell a good story. This holds true for the two documentaries I watched Tuesday night at Ciff.
- 10/15/2014
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
The Chicago Film Festival is sadly not New York, Cannes, Toronto, Telluride or Sundance. It doesn’t take place in a quaint mountain town but in the heart of Streeterville where the film fest has taken over a local AMC multiplex. It doesn’t get world premieres of the biggest auteur debuts or Oscar bait like Inherent Vice, Gone Girl or The Theory of Everything. Special screenings like Birdman, Wild, St. Vincent, The Imitation Game, Clouds of Sils Maria and Two Days, One Night are all leftovers that the blogs and other festivals have already absorbed and spit back out.
What that leaves are the under-the-radar gems, the local Chicago color that never makes it past the Mississippi and the early looks at darlings that didn’t get the due attention the first time around the festival circuit. Last year, Chicagoans got a look at Le Week-end, Like Father, Like Son,...
What that leaves are the under-the-radar gems, the local Chicago color that never makes it past the Mississippi and the early looks at darlings that didn’t get the due attention the first time around the festival circuit. Last year, Chicagoans got a look at Le Week-end, Like Father, Like Son,...
- 10/9/2014
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Among Jayson Brooks' many talents, hiding out is not one of them.
"As a final acceptance of my height, I've grown my hair super, super long for this skyscraper effect," the towering (Brooks stands at 6'3") and well-coifed frontman of Jc Brooks & The Uptown Sound told HuffPost Chicago in a recent interview.
Following a year of near non-stop performances around the globe and a nod from the hit Fox comedy "The New Girl," Brooks is easily the most recognizable face of the Chicago-based band.
Brooks acknowledged the group's popularity has grown since their 2011 album which featured a rousing soul cover of Wilco’s “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart.”
"More people are aware of us, and we're meeting a lot of random people," Brooks said. "I'm kind of jumpy by nature, so meeting people who recognize me surprises me. But, it's a flattering kind of surprise."
The singer called...
"As a final acceptance of my height, I've grown my hair super, super long for this skyscraper effect," the towering (Brooks stands at 6'3") and well-coifed frontman of Jc Brooks & The Uptown Sound told HuffPost Chicago in a recent interview.
Following a year of near non-stop performances around the globe and a nod from the hit Fox comedy "The New Girl," Brooks is easily the most recognizable face of the Chicago-based band.
Brooks acknowledged the group's popularity has grown since their 2011 album which featured a rousing soul cover of Wilco’s “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart.”
"More people are aware of us, and we're meeting a lot of random people," Brooks said. "I'm kind of jumpy by nature, so meeting people who recognize me surprises me. But, it's a flattering kind of surprise."
The singer called...
- 5/21/2013
- by Kim Bellware
- Huffington Post
The first Chicago bar I drank in was the Old Town Ale House. That bar was destroyed by fire in the 1960s, the customers hosed off, and the Ale House moved directly across the street to its present location, where it has been named Chicago's Best Dive Bar by the Chicago Tribune.
I was taken to the Ale House by Tom Devries, my fellow college editor from the Roosevelt Torch. It was early on a snowy Sunday afternoon. I remember us walking down to Barbara's Bookstore to get our copies of the legendary New York Herald-Tribune Sunday edition. Pogo. Judith Crist. Tom Wolfe. Jimmy Breslin. I remember peanut shells on the floor and a projector grinding through 16mm prints of Charlie Chaplin shorts. I remember my first taste of dark Löwenbräu beer. The Ale House was cool even then.
I returned to the North Avenue drinking scene on New Year's Eve...
I was taken to the Ale House by Tom Devries, my fellow college editor from the Roosevelt Torch. It was early on a snowy Sunday afternoon. I remember us walking down to Barbara's Bookstore to get our copies of the legendary New York Herald-Tribune Sunday edition. Pogo. Judith Crist. Tom Wolfe. Jimmy Breslin. I remember peanut shells on the floor and a projector grinding through 16mm prints of Charlie Chaplin shorts. I remember my first taste of dark Löwenbräu beer. The Ale House was cool even then.
I returned to the North Avenue drinking scene on New Year's Eve...
- 2/18/2013
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
The title, a misquotation from the most famous line of Robert Burns's poem "To a Mouse", directs us to John Steinbeck's novella, and indeed this modest movie is an urban reworking of Of Mice and Men in present day Nottingham. The kind-hearted mentally handicapped Lennie (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) becomes the gentle black giant Joseph. His devoted protector George (Stephen Graham) is turned into Danny, a petty Scouse crook, who's forced to hire out his friend as a bare-knuckle boxer to local gang boss (David O'Hara) to settle a debt. The film is a cut above recent British low-life crime pictures and finds suitable girlfriends for both men while ignoring the third of Nelson Algren's rules for life – never sleep with a woman whose problems are worse than your own.
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- 2/5/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The American novelist Nelson Algren famously advised: "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own." In his directorial debut the great character actor Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a shy 40-something limousine driver who breaks the second and third by courting a neurotic fellow New Yorker (Amy Ryan) and then making a disastrous attempt to cook her a home dinner. The movie is a quirky updating of the 1955 Oscar-winner Marty, but less hard-edged.
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- 11/6/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
This week’s Must Read is actually a series of articles. Cineflyer is reprinting and transcribing articles from the first 2007 edition of The Moose, the newsletter of the Winnipeg Film Group. Here’s a scan of the cover. The issue included movie reviews by Darryl Nepinak and Mike Maryniuk’s top 10 Wfg films. Plus, there’s filmmaking tips by Cecilia Araneda and Heidi Phillips. An article by King of the Internet, Jaimz Asmundson. Guy Maddin interviews his favorite filmmaker, Guy Maddin.Heavy Metal Parking Lot hits the big time with a profile in the Wall Street Journal, of all places!Did you know Chicago’s Facets had a Tumblr blog? We didn’t, but now we do. Go bookmark.Plus, on the Facets blog, Gregory Hess reviews Steven Soderbergh’s “lost” film Kafka, which is only available on VHS. That’s weird.Speaking of Chicago, the Tribune spotlights two homegrown...
- 7/10/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Every few days, the Hollywood Cog sends me manila envelopes stuffed with cryptic typewritten messages with Los Angeles postmarks and no return address. Lately, the envelopes have had a jasmine and lavender scent, so who knows where this is leading. Who I think now is probably a she (although, given my perception on the site, who knows?) provides quite a bit of information that I never use, that I file away. By the time it gets to me on the East Coast, a lot of the information has already been reported by Deadline or The L.A. Times or The Wrap, although, more times than not, it's Nikki Finke over at Deadline, who has lately become the obnoxious Internet troll screaming First! while skipping around her office in her skivvies eating Snickers.
What I've realized over the last year, working with the Cog and her lavender scented envelopes, however, is that...
What I've realized over the last year, working with the Cog and her lavender scented envelopes, however, is that...
- 11/2/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Hollywood actor Johnny Depp and his longtime girlfriend Vanessa Paradis will be seen together in a new film about feminist writer Simone De Beauvoir. While the French actress will play De Beauvoir in the film titled My American Lover, Depp is in negotiations to play her lover Nelson Algren, reports digitalspy.co.uk. "They're still writing the script but the idea would be amazing because it's such a beautiful story. You only know when you're really actually shooting," said Paradis. The couple were previously cast together in Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote, but the film could not be completed. "We've had plenty of opportunities to work together. ...
- 9/8/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
London, Sep 7 – French actress Vanessa Paradis has confirmed she and partner Johnny Depp are considering playing Simone De Beauvoir and her lover Nelson Algren in an upcoming flick.
The ‘Joe Le Taxi’ singer has been in talks to play the late writer/feminist in ‘My American Lover’ for some time.
And now she has admitted that the father of her two children is onboard to play Algren.They’re still writing the script but the idea would be amazing because it’s such a beautiful story. You only know when you’re really actually shooting,”.
The ‘Joe Le Taxi’ singer has been in talks to play the late writer/feminist in ‘My American Lover’ for some time.
And now she has admitted that the father of her two children is onboard to play Algren.They’re still writing the script but the idea would be amazing because it’s such a beautiful story. You only know when you’re really actually shooting,”.
- 9/7/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
London, Sep 7 – Hollywood actor Johnny Depp and his longtime girlfriend Vanessa Paradis will be seen together in a new film about feminist writer Simone De Beauvoir.
While the French actress will play De Beauvoir in the film titled ‘My American Lover’, Depp is in negotiations to play her lover Nelson Algren, reports digitalspy.co.uk.
‘They’re still writing the script but the idea would be amazing because it’s such a beautiful story. You only know when you’re really actually shooting,’ said Paradis.
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While the French actress will play De Beauvoir in the film titled ‘My American Lover’, Depp is in negotiations to play her lover Nelson Algren, reports digitalspy.co.uk.
‘They’re still writing the script but the idea would be amazing because it’s such a beautiful story. You only know when you’re really actually shooting,’ said Paradis.
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- 9/7/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
HollywoodNews.com: Vanessa Paradis is starry eyed about playing opposite her partner Johnny Depp in the romance project “My American Lover.”
Though it was already revealed this summer that the movie was being put together, Paradis offered the press some more insight about “American Lover” in which she portrays feminist writer Simone De Beauvoir and Depp, her lover Nelson Algren.
Paradis tells WENN: “They’re still writing the script but the idea would be amazing because it’s such a beautiful story. You only know when you’re really actually shooting.
“We’ve had plenty of opportunities to work together. But I don’t know that I could do it… It’s something that we don’t look for, otherwise it would’ve happened many times.
“‘My American Lover’ came along and it might happen just because the story is great and why not if we can, but we don’t push things.
Though it was already revealed this summer that the movie was being put together, Paradis offered the press some more insight about “American Lover” in which she portrays feminist writer Simone De Beauvoir and Depp, her lover Nelson Algren.
Paradis tells WENN: “They’re still writing the script but the idea would be amazing because it’s such a beautiful story. You only know when you’re really actually shooting.
“We’ve had plenty of opportunities to work together. But I don’t know that I could do it… It’s something that we don’t look for, otherwise it would’ve happened many times.
“‘My American Lover’ came along and it might happen just because the story is great and why not if we can, but we don’t push things.
- 9/7/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Vanessa Paradis has confirmed that she and long-term partner Johnny Depp are in talks to star together in a film about feminist writer Simone De Beauvoir. The French singer and actress was rumoured to be in line for the role of De Beauvoir in My American Lover, and has now revealed that Depp is in negotiations to play her lover Nelson Algren. Paradis told WENN: "They're still writing the script but the idea would be amazing because it's such a beautiful story. You only know when you're really actually shooting." The couple were previously cast together in Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote, but (more)...
- 9/6/2010
- by By Naomi Rainey
- Digital Spy
French actress/singer Vanessa Paradis has confirmed she and longtime partner Johnny Depp are in talks to play Simone De Beauvoir and her lover Nelson Algren in a racy new movie.
The Joe Le Taxi singer has been slated to play the late writer/feminist in My American Lover for some time and now she admits the father of her two children is onboard to play Algren.
Paradis and Depp have never officially worked together before, although they were cast in Terry Gilliam's doomed Don Quixote movie before the production fell apart over a decade ago.
And now the actress admits the time may be right for her to partner with her real-life boyfriend on film.
She tells WENN, "They're still writing the script but the idea would be amazing because it's such a beautiful story. You only know when you're really actually shooting.
"We've had plenty of opportunities to work together but I don't know that I could do it; keep a straight face in front of him... It's something that we don't look for, otherwise it would've happened many times.
"My American Lover came along and it might happen just because the story is great and why not if we can, but we don't push things. Playing in front of one of the best actors in the world that we have and someone I know so well will be challenging. That's why we don't run after it. But I don't know... why not?"...
The Joe Le Taxi singer has been slated to play the late writer/feminist in My American Lover for some time and now she admits the father of her two children is onboard to play Algren.
Paradis and Depp have never officially worked together before, although they were cast in Terry Gilliam's doomed Don Quixote movie before the production fell apart over a decade ago.
And now the actress admits the time may be right for her to partner with her real-life boyfriend on film.
She tells WENN, "They're still writing the script but the idea would be amazing because it's such a beautiful story. You only know when you're really actually shooting.
"We've had plenty of opportunities to work together but I don't know that I could do it; keep a straight face in front of him... It's something that we don't look for, otherwise it would've happened many times.
"My American Lover came along and it might happen just because the story is great and why not if we can, but we don't push things. Playing in front of one of the best actors in the world that we have and someone I know so well will be challenging. That's why we don't run after it. But I don't know... why not?"...
- 9/6/2010
- WENN
Notorious envelope-pusher Otto Preminger was the first to produce an adult movie about drug addiction, based on Nelson Algren's novel about a heroin addict's desperation to kick the habit. Released without an MPAA seal, it helped liberate subsequent films from the rigid strictures of the production code. Elmer Bernstein's jazz score and Saul Bass's title graphics were similarly groundbreaking.
- 8/17/2010
- Trailers from Hell
Hollywoodnews.com: What does it take to keep a romantic relationship with Johnny Depp going? Got any ideas ladies?
Should you play with his head? No. Should you tempt him? Possibly.
Well, look no further than his longtime partner Vanessa Paradis to set the record straight. What makes her intimate life with Mr. “Pirates of the Caribbean” work is “love, respect, patience and old movies” according to Digital Spy.
“We like watching old movies with Bogart and Bacall and Jean Gabin and Alain Delon” adds the French actress.
Recently, the duo have decided to work together.
Depp confirmed “It’s called ‘My American Lover.’ Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren.”
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Should you play with his head? No. Should you tempt him? Possibly.
Well, look no further than his longtime partner Vanessa Paradis to set the record straight. What makes her intimate life with Mr. “Pirates of the Caribbean” work is “love, respect, patience and old movies” according to Digital Spy.
“We like watching old movies with Bogart and Bacall and Jean Gabin and Alain Delon” adds the French actress.
Recently, the duo have decided to work together.
Depp confirmed “It’s called ‘My American Lover.’ Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren.”
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- 6/30/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
We think that this time Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom really made good move, since we just heard latest news from Hollywood – real life couple Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis united on a big screen in an upcoming movie My American Lover!
That really sounds good, and even more, because the story seems pretty interesting. The film follows the life of French feminist philosopher, writer and theorist Simone de Beauvoir and American novelist Nelson Algren.
Logically, Paradis will have an honor to play Madame de Beauvoir, and Depp will be her macho lover Nelson.
And, as you may guess, this movie is going to be based on de Beauvoir’s collection of correspondences she sent Algren in the late 1940s.
The letters center on their transatlantic affair and their travels together through Latin America in 1949. All of these letters are so rich in details, so we should not worry – this movie...
That really sounds good, and even more, because the story seems pretty interesting. The film follows the life of French feminist philosopher, writer and theorist Simone de Beauvoir and American novelist Nelson Algren.
Logically, Paradis will have an honor to play Madame de Beauvoir, and Depp will be her macho lover Nelson.
And, as you may guess, this movie is going to be based on de Beauvoir’s collection of correspondences she sent Algren in the late 1940s.
The letters center on their transatlantic affair and their travels together through Latin America in 1949. All of these letters are so rich in details, so we should not worry – this movie...
- 3/17/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
"Alice in Wonderland" star Johnny Depp loves his simple life in France.
Depp tells French magazine Vsd that living a simple, quiet life there with Vanessa Paradis (seen above on the new French Elle cover) and their children, Lily-Rose, 10, and Jack, 7, "has given me everything. A marvelous family and also an equilibrium which I missed enormously."
But he still wants to act in a film with his beautiful French wife. And there are reports the couple will costar in "American Dream," the story of French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and her affair with Nelson Algren.
"Nothing has been officially signed but it's progressing well. I've great desire to work with her on a film. Vanessa is not only a terrific singer but a wonderful actress."
"With Vanessa and the kids, we live in a sort of little village in the south and I have the impression of being in paradise,...
Depp tells French magazine Vsd that living a simple, quiet life there with Vanessa Paradis (seen above on the new French Elle cover) and their children, Lily-Rose, 10, and Jack, 7, "has given me everything. A marvelous family and also an equilibrium which I missed enormously."
But he still wants to act in a film with his beautiful French wife. And there are reports the couple will costar in "American Dream," the story of French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and her affair with Nelson Algren.
"Nothing has been officially signed but it's progressing well. I've great desire to work with her on a film. Vanessa is not only a terrific singer but a wonderful actress."
"With Vanessa and the kids, we live in a sort of little village in the south and I have the impression of being in paradise,...
- 3/3/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
He's been The Mad Hatter, Edward Scissorhands and Captain Jack Sparrow - and yet he dreams of cultivating a premium vino. In a cover interview with French magazine Vsd, on newsstands Thursday, Johnny Depp opens up in a rare discussion of his personal life, including a secret desire "to make wine. But I'll keep it for myself before daring to sell it commercially." A longtime resident of Plan-de-la-Tour in southern France, Depp says, "in the Var where I live, it's very interesting. [The region is] notable for rosé and it's very good, though I prefer red myself." Currently filming The Tourist in Venice with Angelina Jolie,...
- 3/3/2010
- by Peter Mikelbank
- PEOPLE.com
They might have been an item for 12 years, but Lasse Hallstrom’s My American Lover will be the first time Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis have shared the big screen together. Speaking to BangShowbiz (via The Playlist), Depp revealed the film will follow the relationship between French feminist Simone de Beauvoir (Paradis) and American writer Nelson Algren (Depp). The Pirates star describes his character as ‘real macho’, which should please a certain section of the audience, and with Hallstrom and Depp’s...
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- 3/2/2010
- by Total Film
- TotalFilm
Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp and his girlfriend Vanessa Paradis are taking their real-life romance to the screen. The couple, who are parents to two young children, is set to play lovers in a new movie American Dream, Contactmusic reported. The film will chronicle the romance between famous feminist Simone de Beauvoir and American writer Nelson Algren. “Vanessa plays Simone and I play Algren, who is real macho,” Depp said. ...
- 3/2/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp and his long-time girlfriend Vanessa Paradis are taking their real-life romance to the onscreen. The couple, who has been together for over a decade and are parents to two young children, Lily-Rose and Jack, is set to play lovers in a new movie, Contactmusic reported. Depp and Paradis have signed up to star in the American Dream, which is to begin shooting next year. The film will chronicle the romance between famous feminist Simone de Beauvoir and American writer Nelson Algren. "Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover ...
- 3/2/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Johnny Depp's legion of female fans could be about to have their hearts doubly broken. He is set to star alongside his girlfriend Vanessa Paradis, playing lovers in new film, My American Lover. The Pirates Of The Caribbean star and the French singer and actress - who have been together for over 10 years and are parents to 10-year-old daughter Lily-Rose and son Jack, seven - will play American novelist Nelson Algren and French feminist philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir in the movie, according to The Playlist blog.
- 3/2/2010
- Sky Movies
Depp to Team with Real-Life Lover in 'My American Lover' Somewhere in between sailing off for another adventure with those Pirates of the Caribbean, Johnny Depp will team up with his real-life lover of 12 years, Vanessa Paradis, on a new film called My American Lover. On what the project is about, Depp said, "It’s in preparation. It's called My American Lover. Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren who is real macho." A 20th century French writer, philosopher and social theorist, Simone de Beauvoir was famous for her essays and metaphysical novels like She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, as well as the 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women’s oppression. Much of her intense love affair with...
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- 3/2/2010
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Getting to work on his latest gig, Johnny Depp was spotted on the set of “The Tourist” in Venice, Italy on Monday (March 1).
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” hunk took to a balcony as he geared up to shoot scenes in the film, which co-stars Angelina Jolie.
Meanwhile, it was recently reported that Johnny has decided to team up with girlfriend Vanessa Paradis in “My American Lover”.
The film is about 20th-century writer Simone de Beavoir, with Depp telling press that Paradis “will play the famed feminist, while he will play her lover, Nelson Algren, whom he describes as real macho."...
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” hunk took to a balcony as he geared up to shoot scenes in the film, which co-stars Angelina Jolie.
Meanwhile, it was recently reported that Johnny has decided to team up with girlfriend Vanessa Paradis in “My American Lover”.
The film is about 20th-century writer Simone de Beavoir, with Depp telling press that Paradis “will play the famed feminist, while he will play her lover, Nelson Algren, whom he describes as real macho."...
- 3/1/2010
- GossipCenter
Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis are slated to star in “My American Dream”, about Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren. Being directed by Lasse Hallstrom, “My American Dream” is about the famous French philosopher and feminist and her lover Algren, an American writer. The film is slated to start production and filming in 2011. Hallström has previously directed Depp in both “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” and “Chocolat.” Depp and Paradis have been together for 12 years and have two children together. Depp said that “Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren who is real macho.” He’s expected to make the film in 2011. Depp is currently [...]...
- 3/1/2010
- by Costa Koutsoutis
- ShockYa
I had no idea that Depp's chick was an actress. Johnny Depp and his long-term love Vanessa Paradis are finding a new way to collaborate. The couple, who've been together for 12 years and have two kids, have signed on to appear in the new movie My American Lover, marking the first time they'll have ever worked together.Depp said: “It’s in preparation. It's called My American Lover. Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren who is real macho.” Hmm, Ok then. With no mention as to who is attached from a writing or directing standpoint, I can't really get excited for this. But from the sounds of it, this role calls for less Wacky Depp and more Serious Depp, which we don't get enough of nowadays. So I guess that's cool.Oh, also, Johnny had this to say about the upcoming "Pirates 4." He revealed to Blick.
- 3/1/2010
- LRMonline.com
Some actor couples have managed to star together successfully. Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy did all right, as did the legendary Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. But then there's plenty of real life partnerships that went down in flames after they made a movie or two together. Work and marriage, it seems, don't often mix. Nevertheless, Johnny Depp and his companion Vanessa Paradis are brave enough to give it a try. According to BangShowbiz, Depp and Paradis are preparing to make My American Lover together with Lasse Hallström directing.
To make matters even riskier, My American Lover isn't just a standard love story. It's about the legendary feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, and her love affair with writer Nelson Algren. The couple traveled through Latin America in 1949, and he was the basis of the character Lewis Brogan in her novel The Mandarins. Her letters to Algren were collected in A...
To make matters even riskier, My American Lover isn't just a standard love story. It's about the legendary feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, and her love affair with writer Nelson Algren. The couple traveled through Latin America in 1949, and he was the basis of the character Lewis Brogan in her novel The Mandarins. Her letters to Algren were collected in A...
- 3/1/2010
- by Elisabeth Rappe
- Cinematical
Depp and Paradis to Star in American Lover
Bang Showbiz is reporting that Johnny Depp and girlfriend Vanessa Paradis will both star in the film My American Lover.
“It’s in preparation. It’s called My American Lover. Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren who is real macho.”
The Playlist has a few more details on the film, which will be directed by Lasse Hallstrom. The site speculated that the earliest the film would shoot would be spring 2011. I believe and will stand corrected if not so, that this is the first time the real life couple will appear in a movie together as co-stars.
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Bang Showbiz is reporting that Johnny Depp and girlfriend Vanessa Paradis will both star in the film My American Lover.
“It’s in preparation. It’s called My American Lover. Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren who is real macho.”
The Playlist has a few more details on the film, which will be directed by Lasse Hallstrom. The site speculated that the earliest the film would shoot would be spring 2011. I believe and will stand corrected if not so, that this is the first time the real life couple will appear in a movie together as co-stars.
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- 3/1/2010
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
No, this isn't a post about some strange dream I had that stirred up feelings I didn't know existed about Johnny Depp. Rather, it's about a new project from the actor, one where he’s collaborating with his girlfriend of 12 years (and mother of this two kids), Vanessa Paradis. According to Depp: “It’s in preparation. It's called My American Lover. Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren who is real...
- 3/1/2010
- by Paul Tassi
- JoBlo.com
Film history is full of real life couples starring along side each other and the scale of greatness varies from good to bloody awful. There’s the very good: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall and then there’s Don Johnson and Melanie Griffiths in Born Yesterday. Now Johnny Depp and his French wife, singer and occasional actress, Vanessa Paradis, are dipping their toes into such uncertain waters. Depp recently told Bang Showbiz that he’s agreed to star in My American Lover, a story based on French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with writer Nelson Algren.
The film is being directed by another of Depp’s long time collaborator’s, Lasse Hallestrom. The thought of Vanessa Paradis playing Simone de Beauvoir is hilarious, but there’s no confirmed news yet whether she will be.
It’s a very busy time for Johnny Depp. He’s currently...
The film is being directed by another of Depp’s long time collaborator’s, Lasse Hallestrom. The thought of Vanessa Paradis playing Simone de Beauvoir is hilarious, but there’s no confirmed news yet whether she will be.
It’s a very busy time for Johnny Depp. He’s currently...
- 3/1/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Real-life husband and wife, Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, will reprise their love relationship on the big screen in My American Lover. The film will be directed by Lasse Hallström.
Vanessa Paradis will play the leading French feminist intellectual of the post-war era, Simone de Beauvoir, who was also the wife of the iconic philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre. Nonetheless, De Beauvoir had many lovers and Johnny Depp will star as the American novelist Nelson Algren, who was "a real macho" according to Johnny Depp.
The film is expected to be shot in 2011 as Depp is currently shooting The Tourist and will then move to the next Pirates film.
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Vanessa Paradis will play the leading French feminist intellectual of the post-war era, Simone de Beauvoir, who was also the wife of the iconic philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre. Nonetheless, De Beauvoir had many lovers and Johnny Depp will star as the American novelist Nelson Algren, who was "a real macho" according to Johnny Depp.
The film is expected to be shot in 2011 as Depp is currently shooting The Tourist and will then move to the next Pirates film.
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- 3/1/2010
- Screenrush
Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis are taking their relationship to the big screen - they are set to play lovers in a new film.
The couple has been together for over a decade and are parents to two young children, Lily-Rose and Jack.
And the pair is now teaming up on-set - they have both signed on to star in The American Dream, which is due to begin filming next year.
Depp reveals, “Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren, who is real macho.”...
The couple has been together for over a decade and are parents to two young children, Lily-Rose and Jack.
And the pair is now teaming up on-set - they have both signed on to star in The American Dream, which is due to begin filming next year.
Depp reveals, “Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren, who is real macho.”...
- 3/1/2010
- WENN
Real-life couple Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis will team for Lasse Hallström's "My American Dream" says Bang Showbiz.
Paradis stars as 20th century French feminist Simone de Beauvoir, a writer and philosopher famous for her treatise The Second Sex which looked at women's oppression and contemporary feminism.
de Beauvoir also had an open relationship with existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and traversed through Latin America with macho writer Nelson Algren (Depp) in the late 40's.
Depp is wouldn't be filming the project until after he wraps his work on both "The Tourist" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides".
Paradis stars as 20th century French feminist Simone de Beauvoir, a writer and philosopher famous for her treatise The Second Sex which looked at women's oppression and contemporary feminism.
de Beauvoir also had an open relationship with existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and traversed through Latin America with macho writer Nelson Algren (Depp) in the late 40's.
Depp is wouldn't be filming the project until after he wraps his work on both "The Tourist" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides".
- 3/1/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
This is some interesting casting. The Playlist found a new quote from Johnny Depp (at BangShowbiz) where he talks about a new project he's involved in with Swedish filmmaker Lasse Hallström (who last directed Dear John as well as Chocolat, An Unfinished Life, and many other films). Apparently Hallström has cast Depp and his real life girlfriend Vanessa Paradis, who last starred in a French comedy called L'arnacoeur (or Heartbreaker in English), in his new film called My American Lover, about the story of French feminist philosopher, writer and theorist Simone de Beauvoir and American novelist Nelson Algren. "It's called My American Lover," Depp said. "Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren who is real macho." The Playlist thinks this is an adaptation of de Beauvoir's book "A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren," which is a collection of correspondences sent...
- 3/1/2010
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
They’ve carved out a private little chunk of life – not to mention an island – together, but now Johnny Depp and his other half, Vanessa Paradis are bringing their natural chemistry to the screen for My American Lover.Depp told BangShowbiz (via The Playlist) that he’s agreed to star in the film, which will track French feminist and thinker Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with American novelist Nelson Algren.Lasse Hallstrom, who has worked with Depp on What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and Chocolat, is the man to direct the film which will most likely be taken from de Beauvoir’s collection of communiqués between the pair in the 1940s, A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters To Nelson Algren.And while he waits for Depp’s sched The Danish Girlule to clear (the actor’s been shooting The Tourist with Angelina Jolie and then reports to the ocean for Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides...
- 3/1/2010
- EmpireOnline
Johnny Depp is making one of his next projects a family affair. As reported by BangShowbiz (via Coming Soon), Depp will star alongside his real life love, Vanessa Paradis in Lasse Hallström.s My American Lover. Depp explained that "Vanessa plays the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren who is real macho.. The Playlist suggests the film will be based on de Beauvoir.s A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren. De Beauvoir met Algren in 1947 when a mutual friend suggested he be her tour guide in Chicago for a couple of days and they immediately fell in love. When she returned home she sent him love letters filled with information on French social history. 300 of those letters survived and were assembled into this book. Depp is in the midst of shooting The Tourist with Angelina Jolie and has Pirates of the ...
- 2/28/2010
- cinemablend.com
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