So remember about a year ago when Abel Ferrara was talking up his next movie, one that would be inspired by/based on disgraced French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn? While producers were cagier, Ferrara suggested a shoot last summer with Gerard Depardieu in the lead role, with Isabelle Adjani to co-star. Well, that didn't happen and now it looks like he's going to have to find a new leading lady. French media are reporting that Adjani has exited the project. The actress was apparently going to play Anne Sinclair, Strauss-Kahn's wife, but left the movie given the new media scrutiny Strauss-Kahn is under thanks to the publication of a tell-all book by journalist Marcela Iacub, about her seven-month affair with him. The book, titled "Beauty And Beast," is a semi-fictional account of their very real relationship, and it has made headlines in Europe for its salacious content. Adjani believes it will...
- 3/7/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
For the moment, Abel Ferrara's probably-controversial film about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sex-scandal is still moving forward, but actress Isabelle Adjani (Possession) has announced that she's leaving the project, in which she was supposed to play Strauss-Kahn's wife Anne Sinclaire. Her reasoning involves what she called the film's "destructive intrusion into the private sphere of these two people." Her decision may be in part due to the fact that, even a year later, the French media still won't leave Dsk alone. Most recently, Marcela Iacub has just published a new book, which apparently reveals even more X-rated details about the former head of the Imf. Dsk is apparently suing the author for violation of privacy. All of that said, Gerard Depardieu is still set to play...
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- 3/6/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Following a morning hearing, French courts will announce a decision Tuesday night on the banning of a book about disgraced former International Monetary Fund chief and former presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Strauss-Kahn appeared in a Paris court Tuesday morning in an attempt to legally ban the book, titled Beauty and the Beast, by author Marcela Iacub that details her affair with the politician in the aftermath of the sexual assault charges that saw him booted from the Imf in 2011. The book is due to be released Wednesday, and the court will decide Tuesday if it should go
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- 2/26/2013
- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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