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Breillat's Bad Love becomes a Must Read, not a Must See

Posted by Eric Lavallee on Oct 07, 2009
Source: Fin De Cinema

Thanks to Fin De Cinema's Joe Bowman for piecing together an update on provocatrice filmmaker Catherine Breillat. If the debilitating after-effects of a stroke weren't bad enough (she miraculously gave birth to not one (The Last Mistress) but two films when you add the NYFF selection Bluebeard) now comes word that the Bad Love (a project which she mentioned to us the last time she came to NYFF for a film), a remake of Breillat's own film, is DOA. It would have starred model Naomi Campbell, but it won't be coming to the big screen, thanks to a leecher of society.

Known for working with the fringe crowd, Breillat was the latest victim to human cockroach Christophe Rocancourt. Some of you might remember the 60 minutes piece on a French conman passing himself off as a Rockefeller. France's most celebrated con man sucked out a good chunk of production money and the how he did it will probably be the basis of Breillat's book which details the her account with him. We'll update you on the release of the book. Also in the works, her next directing gig will be part for French television...

“a modern adaptation of Sleeping Beauty, continuing to stray from using her own writings as source material, after The Last Mistress [Une vieille maîtresse] from Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly and Bluebeard [Barbe Bleue] from Charles Perrault, the man also responsible for Sleeping Beauty. The Sleeping Beauty project appears to be part of a series of films updating classic contes de fées. According to Toutlecine.com, filmmakers Jacques Doillon (Ponette, Le premier venu) and Marina de Van (Dans ma peau, Ne te retourne pas) are rumored to also be contributing to the series.”



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    Posted by reassurance on 2009-10-09 at 20:26:08

    I don't know how I just found out about that scandal until this week. I need to keep up with the French news apparently, as I hardly saw mention of it anywhere in English.

    Naomi Campbell in a Catherine Breillat film was too good to be true, I guess.

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    Posted by Iheartsubtitles on 2009-10-12 at 23:58:51

    Thanks for the piece - now got to report on more updates!

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    Posted by olen on 2010-02-09 at 00:58:09

    For those who can read French - more details on the scandal. maybe google can translate the page...

    http://www.tajeunesse.com/christophe-rocancourt-en-garde-a-vue-apres-une-plainte-de-catherine-breillat.html

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