Soko Joins Virginie Despentes’ Bye Bye Blondie

SoKo – the singer (she opened for M.I.A in 07′) and actress who was nominated for a César Award for her role in Xavier Giannoli‘s A l’origine, is the final piece added to Virginie Despentes’ sophomore pic which will begin lensing at the end of this month in Paris and other whereabouts in France. Bye Bye Blondie sees topliners Emmanuelle Béart, Béatrice Dalle and Pascal Greggory, SoKo appears to be added as a supporting player.

The director behind Rape Me, Despentes announced she was adapting from her own novel just recently, this tells the story Gloria (Dalle) lives in Nancy. Unemployed, without a family, and with no permanent address, she wastes her days at a local watering hole. Frances (Béart) lives in Paris – she is a popular figure in television and is married to a novelist. While in the public eye they form the ideal couple, in their private lives, she prefers women and her husband is into boys. On a trip out to Nancy, Frances reunites with Gloria who she hasn’t see since 1985. Their big love story also happens to be Gloria’s biggest heartbreak. Life continued, but how will these two women from different realities find each other?