Gérard Depardieu plays powerful fallen character, with Jacqueline Bisset as wife, in film Welcome to New York
The first images from a feature film inspired by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal and directed by the American Abel Ferrara, have been released, two years after the former head of the Imf was arrested in New York over the alleged attempted rape of a hotel worker.
The trailer for Welcome to New York is a frenzied and explicit rampage through the champagne, orgies and debauchery behind a French power figure at the highest levels of Washington before his arrest over attempted rape.
The Strauss-Kahn figure is played by Gérard Depardieu in what appears to be such a scathing performance it could help rehabilitate the actor's own image in France, where he caused a storm this year by taking Russian nationality in a row over tax.
"It is a [Strauss-Kahn] only Depardieu could play," said...
The first images from a feature film inspired by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal and directed by the American Abel Ferrara, have been released, two years after the former head of the Imf was arrested in New York over the alleged attempted rape of a hotel worker.
The trailer for Welcome to New York is a frenzied and explicit rampage through the champagne, orgies and debauchery behind a French power figure at the highest levels of Washington before his arrest over attempted rape.
The Strauss-Kahn figure is played by Gérard Depardieu in what appears to be such a scathing performance it could help rehabilitate the actor's own image in France, where he caused a storm this year by taking Russian nationality in a row over tax.
"It is a [Strauss-Kahn] only Depardieu could play," said...
- 5/16/2013
- by Angelique Chrisafis
- The Guardian - Film News
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