I'm not sure if I'd describe this portion of her acting career as being "in the zone", European audiences have been watching her for the past decade, while U.S viewers have seen her in art-house fair but only probably spotted her in a key supporting role in Thomas McCarthy's The Visitor. The actress followed up that role with a pair at this year's Sundance film fest and she'll most likely be present at this year's Cannes fest with Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control. Now she gets to work on Julian Schnabel's fourth feature film. Not to shabby.
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There won't be any big costly parties in Cannes this year for the folks at Pathe – it seems to be a Berlin, skip Cannes and go to Venice type of year. The Illusionist preemed in Berlin and makes an appearance in the Market screenings, and the much anticipated Miral from Julian Schnabel skipped a non-comp, non-confidence vote and is instead poised to double dip in Venice and TIFF.
It might have been announced just today, but this deal was probably completed several weeks back, Arthouse Films (small NYC-based distributor of docu films) has picked up the rights to Tamra Davis’s film Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. Arthouse plans a summer release, probably right after Julian Schnabel preems Miral in Cannes.
He'll be inevitably compared in both his acting and now, directing career to Y tu mamá también/Rudo Y Cursi counterpart Gael Garcia Bernal. Bernal who made his social class structure, pool yard debut with Déficit, has since fallen back to playing in front of the camera, while Diego Luna's film schooling has included Julian Schnabel, Julie Taymor, Steven Spielberg, Harmony Korine, the Cuaron brothers and most recently, Gus Van Sant.