Her smooth ascent into the viewfinder of American pop culture has been almost as graceful as her presence on screen. It’s amazing that French beauty/talent Melanie Laurent turned heads only 3 years ago in Inglourious Basterds.
Even though she hasn’t been in too much since (the well-received Beginners, the little-seen The Concert, the lovely, Netflix Watch Instantly-available, Paris), the camera quite literally loves her. If there is a carpet that’s red that she is near, a flash is going off around her.
Laurent is next slated to star in Christian Carion‘s adaptation of Stefan Zweig‘s novel Letter from an Unknown Woman [The Playlist]. Carion is perhaps best known for his superb film Joyeux Noël, which starred fellow Basterds starlet Diane Kruger and rising male star Daniel Bruhl.
Unknown Woman follows a writer who reads the story of the life of a woman he does not remember in a letter she has written. While Max Ophuls‘ 1948 film is regarded as a classic, the tale has not since been tackled so directly. Lensing on the film is expected to take place this summer.
Have you seen the original Max Ophuls adaptation? Read Zweig’s novel?