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A Trailer for Julie Delpy's 'The Countess'
Filed under: Drama », Independent », Trailers and Clips »
It's been a long while since we've mentioned Julie Delpy's stab at Erzsebet Bathory blood lust with The Countess. This year, it screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it earned a decent review from The Hollywood Reporter, and there's now a trailer as well, which you can see below.It looks to be a pretty interesting take on Bathory's tale. Delpy portrays her as an older, experienced woman who falls for a much younger man (Daniel Bruhl) under the watchul arm of his father (the one and only William Hurt). He disappears, and she suffers an obsessive love that morphs into a chilling blood lust -- not one of necks and teeth, but draining virgins to try and bathing in it to try and stave off age. I guess if you don't have botox botchulism, you've gotta take what you can get. As the review describes, this lust turns into practical bloodletting: "A metal cage with sharp, slicing knives drains away the blood, which gravitation pulls down into her chamber for long, leisurely baths."
It sounds horrific, but The Countess looks to be much more of an art-house drama -- and whether or not it gets a lot of North American play, it definitely sets Delpy up as a director worthy of much more than low-cost indie romance. As of now, there's no word on a US release, but hopefully that will follow the Germany and Netherlands releases later this year.
Haneke Will Direct Some White Tape & Daniel Bruhl Undergoes a Metamorphosis
Filed under: Drama », Independent », Casting », Deals », Cinematical Indie », War »
There is some interesting international news coming from Variety. They're reporting that Cache director Michael Haneke is gearing up for his next film, having just wrapped a U.S. remake of his thriller Funny Games. The new project is interestingly called The White Tape or the Teacher's Tale. Over at Variety, it's all in quotes, so I assume it's the full title, and not two possible titles. Very little is being said about the feature -- it will be co-produced by X-Filme Creative Pool and Les Films du Losange, and will be set in a Northern German village before the first World War. That's the only official news to go on, but there are a few more bits over on the IMDb message boards. It's going to be about the rise of the Nazis, and apparently, actor couple Susanne Lothar and Ulrich Mühe were rumored to be starring. Obviously, with Mühe's passing this week, that won't be the case.The other news bit is of the more classic variety. Daniel Brühl, who starred in Goodbye, Lenin!, is going to head a new adaptation of Kafka's The Metamorphosis as the giant insect previously known as Gregor Samsa. While I'm not a big fan of the story, it's looking to be an intriguing new project as both the ever-creepy Stephen Rea and one of my favorite young actresses, Anna Paquin, are also starring. I presume they will play Gregor's sister and father, which leaves his mother yet to be cast. Metamorphosis will mark the directorial debut for FeardotCom producer Limor Diamant, so hopefully this will be much, much better -- not that it would be hard to improve on the Stephen Dorff flop.
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