Eric Lavallée

I'm extremely curious to see how a touchy concept might play out on the big screen. The film with the narration I'm most looking forward to seeing. Heavenly Creatures anyone?

The 2007 Blacklist mention, the 20 million $ project is working from an odd real life premise about one Robert Durst, a real estate heir whose first wife, Kathleen McCormack, disappeared in 1982. If you thought the family in the Friedmans were f*cked up, wait till you get the details on this one.

Radu Muntean's Cannes entry Boogie, saw popular Romanian actor Dragos Bucur take on the role of the husband who after a a quarrel with the wife, hooks up with some old buddies and loses focus for an evening. Variety reports that Muntean's next feature will touch upon similar themes of guilt and “choices”.

You can bet that Swedish helmer Tomas Alfredson had to field tons of requests for his next directing gig since the international success of Let the Right One In – the pic that was so popular that an American remake was commissioned quickly during the craze (Let Me In is going to be released in January of next year). Today, the director follows in the footsteps of Fernando Meirelles, who after giving us breakout City of God also took on a John Le Carré novel (The Constant Gardener).

Much like Altman's Gosford Park, the interesting component of this exercise is to witness firsthand how gossip spreads like wildfire, once it is out of control the foreground is filled with victims. Unfortunately, Gokalp is working with a well-mannered chaos here and the characters aren't unhinged or strung out enough to make each repeated viewing all the more alluring. Thankfully, Nothing Personal contains a guessing game of sorts – figuring out the true puppet-master of the evening ends up being the only fun. It's a moderately amusing film for adult audiences but not incendiary enough about the company downsizing theme it entertains.