How Oscar Dark Horse Elsa Zylberstein Hooked Quentin Tarantino With a Subtle Love Story
How Oscar Dark Horse Elsa Zylberstein Hooked Quentin Tarantino With a Subtle Love Story
[...] Elsa Zylberstein and “Un Plus Une” are eminently worthy of attention–just ask Quentin Tarantino, a huge fan of the gentle, understated love story from director Claude Lelouch (who directed the Oscar-winning “A Man and a Woman” 50 years ago).
Un Plus Une” was cooked up by Zylberstein and co-star Jean Dujardin on a plane from Paris to Los Angeles in 2013, when Dujardin was coming to town to present at the Oscars a year after winning Best Actor for “The Artist.
What about Claude Lelouch?’ And when I mentioned Claude, Jean started playing the music from ‘Un Homme qui me plait’ [a 1969 Lelouch film with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Annie Girardot] on his phone.
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Zylberstein, who won France’s Cesar Award for “I’ve Loved You So Long” in 2008, would love to work in English with Tarantino, or with other directors like Woody Allen, David O. Russell and Paul Thomas Anderson.
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[...] making the film, she added, was a pleasure because of Lelouch’s style of directing.
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