I Am Love has opened some huge doors for Italian helmer Luca Guadagnino. Currently keepoing busy with docu films Inconscio italiano (showing at Venice this month) and Bertolucci on Bertolucci (docu due out next year), he has been developing Auntie Mame and Corsica 72 as his potential feature film projects – but now it’s a remake of Jacques Deray’s “The Swimming Pool” – the 1969 pic starring Alain Delon, Romy Schneider and a very young Jane Birkin that looks to be his next. TTB report that Jeremy Renner and Mia Wasikowska are currently attached, while Noomi Rapace might be another candidate to fill out the screen foursome in A Bigger Splash. Look for this to be high up on our most anticipated list if production begins this year.
Gist: This follows Marianne and Paul (Renner), a pair of American lovers are vacationing near St.-Tropez when Marianne invites Harry, a former lover, and Penelope (Wasikowska), his young daughter to visit. While Marianne is sleeping with Harry, Paul seduces Penelope, and horrific consequences are inevitable.
Worth Noting: Along with Guadagnino, Wasikowska has lined up work with auteurs such as Jim Jarmusch, John Hillcoat, and Park Chan-wook.
Do We Care?: While Wasikowska cast as a lolita and Renner as the American who has gone to far sounds pleasing, we’re more elated about the insertion of a crime element, the sexual explorations of what Guadagnino tackled in Melissa P. and of course, his aesthetic, we believe that if anyone can get triage rom drama correct its the abled hands of the helmer behind I Am Love.