Jean-Marc Vallee Checks into ‘Love Hotels’

Attached to the project in a producing capacity since 06′, Kate Bosworth is looking to appear in front of the camera in what would be Jean-Marc Vallee’s first U.S. based film debut. The Canadian helmer known for several decade spanning, award-winning picture in C.R.A.Z.Y and his most recent effort in The Young Victoria (which receives a release this month via Apparition) will probably not tackle the Bosworth-starring Lost Girls and Love Hotels until 2011, as he is currently in production with Café De Flore (a love story between a man and woman. And between a mother and her son.)

Based on Catherine Hanrahan’s novel, this tells the story of Margaret (Bosworth) who is doing everything in her power to forget home, and Tokyo’s exotic nightlife-teeming with drink, drugs, and three-hour love hotels-enables her to keep her demons at bay. Working as an English specialist at Air-Pro Stewardess Training Institute by day and losing herself in a sex-and drug-addled oblivion by night, Margaret represses memories of her painful childhood in Canada and her older brother Frank’s descent into madness. But Margaret’s deliberate nihilism is thrown off balance as she becomes increasingly haunted by images of a Western girl missing in Tokyo. And when she meets Kazu, a mysterious gangster, their affair sparks a chain of events that could spell tragedy for Margaret, in a city where it’s all too easy to disappear. Bosworth will next be sen in the Straw Dogs remake.

Vallee’s skill-set weren’t as obvious in The Young Victoria, Relativity Media’s J.J. Harris and Bruna Papandrea are probably drawing on his work in 2005’s C.R.A.Z.Y. The Hollywood Reporter mentions that the idea with “Lost Girls” is for ICM-repped Vallee to draw a strong female performance and marry that with a setting that is gritty yet vibrant, akin to his edgy and pop-soaked take in the 2005 French Canadian hit.