Albert Cohen’s celebrated BELLE DU SEIGNEUR moves into Post Production

Stealth Media Group screened Glenio Bonder’s feature debut BELLE DU SEIGNEUR, starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Natalia Vodianova and Ed Stoppard, which is currently in post production, to selected buyers at the Berlin Film Festival 2011.
By: Mariah Sayer
 
Feb. 16, 2011 - PRLog -- BELLE DU SEIGNEUR producers include Thierry de Navacelle (founder of M6 Films), Jimmy de Brabant (Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Merchant of Venice) and co-producer Jean Luc Van Damme (Goodbye Bafana). The movie is the adaptation of one of Europe’s greatest 20th Century novels, Belle Du Seigneur, script by Bonder, Vincenzo Cerami (nominated for best writer for Roberto Benigni’s Oscar winning Life is Beautiful) and James Dearden (nominated for best writer for Fatal Attraction).

The film stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Match Point, The Tudors, Mission Impossible) in the role of Solal; Natalia Vodianova, the Russian supermodel (Clash of the Titans) in the role of Ariane; Marianne Faithfull in the role of Mariette, Maria Bonnevie in the role of Countess Isolde (What No One Knows, Reconstruction, Jerusalem) and Ed Stoppard in the role of Adrien (The Pianist).  The screenplay is adapted from the celebrated French best seller by Albert Cohen (French Literature Academy Award 1968, and Nobel Prize nominated).  The novel has been translated into many languages and continues to be one of the best annual sellers for its publisher Gallimard, second only to The Little Prince.

Director of Photography is Eduardo Serra (Best Cinematography Oscar nominations for Girl with A Pearl Earring and The Wings of the Dove) and composer is Gabriel Yared (Oscar for The English Patient, nominated for Cold Mountain and The Talented Mr. Ripley).

Logically a world stands between Ariane and Solal; she, young and married, from a Geneva Protestant grand bourgeois family, he a Jewish diplomat, rising from nowhere to the second highest position in the League of Nations on the eve of the Second World War. Carried away by their ardent love, soon abandoned to themselves, alone, they not only have to face the rest of the world’s hostility, but above all, must battle their own demons.

Solal is haunted by a totally obsessive love. Ariane is carried away by a passionate and physical love. Their love is based on an initial and fundamental misunderstanding. He loves the idea of Ariane. She loves the reality of Solal.

Stealth Media Group is a UK distributor and an all rights film and television sales company, which has been growing rapidly over the last year becoming one of Europe’s most dynamic companies, involved in sales, distribution, production and structured film financing.

Stealth launched its US office and company Stealth USA LLC in November 2009, with Jason Piette as Head of North America and Acquisitions and Juan Vista Neis as Head of International Sales. Juan was former Executive Director of International Sales for First Look and Nu Image before joining Stealth to spearhead its rapidly growing media rights base.

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