(Kino International; June 16) The makers: Paul Ruiz.(Kino International; June 16) The makers: Paul Ruiz, director; Gilles Taurand, writer; based in succession the final volume of Marcel Proust's A La Recherche du Temp Perdu The stars: Catherine Deneuve John Malkovich, Emmanuelle Beart, Vincent Perez The pitch: Proust's panoramic vision of Parisian life, from his late-19th-century childhood end World War I. The reason we care: Call it Being Baron de Charlus, since Malkovich takes onward Proust's haughty homosexual aristocrat. The inside scoop: Late gay Italian director Luchino Visconti (Death in Venice) frisk abouted and failed to film Proust's novel with Dirk Bogarde, and UK director Joseph Losey (The Servani) and writer Harold similarly stalled. Explained Chilean director Ruiz at the film's French premiere, "Proust is a director himself, with a vision of things that makes you want to adapt it to the screen" COPYRIGHT 2000 Liberation Publications, Inc. |
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