The Nouvelle Tsunami Swells

With the news of Tran Anh Hung's adaptation of Murakami's Norwegian Wood, Franco-Japon cinematic relations continue to deepen. One film mentioned in my Nouvelle Tsunami post last December, Barbet Schroeder's Inju, La Bête Dans L'ombre, has secured a slot in the Venice competiton (as it's not a Japan co-prod I didn't list in my round-up).

And in a follow-up to Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void, I had heard that the film was on hiatus while Noé searched for actors to play the characters as teenagers (I could be mistaken on this). Among the UK's up and coming acting and directing talent profiled in the July 11 issue of Screen International was 17 year-old Olly Alexander, who landed a lead role (this info is already on the net). The small article mentions the film as being in post-production, describing it as "taking on an array of controversial issues as it follows two young men whose lives are ripped apart by drugs." Alexander states "Someone told me it's never good for an actor not to take risks. And Enter the Void is a risk."

With all this activity, I wish I spoke the language of love better. I studied it for about four years as a kid, but in the words of Morrissey, "I still cannot speak French...I am very lazy."

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