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Bier to direct This Beautiful Life – which is not so beautiful after all

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- The Danish Oscar-winning director, who has two films on the upcoming repertoire for US theatres, will adapt Helen Schulman’s bestselling fable about the decline of privacy

Danish director Susanne Bier (photo), whose In a Better World [+see also:
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won the 2011 Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, has been signed to adapt US author Helen Schulman’s best-selling novel This Beautiful Life for the screen.

She has already to features on the upcoming repertoire in the US theatres – All You Need Is Love, the Danish romantic comedy starring Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, and Kim Bodnia, which Sony Pictures Classics will release on May 3, and Serena, an American drama with Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, which will premiere in September.

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This Beautiful Life  is exactly the kind of material we love - intelligent, complex, but at its core, emotional and universal. As parents, we are all searching for a roadmap to navigate the digital space with our kids. The issues of family never change; it's the landscape in which they unfold that does. This is a story for our times,” said president Pam Koffler, of Killer Films, which will produce the film with Glass Elevator Media.

“Bier is a first-rate director, and when we met I felt like she truly understood my book and the flawed, blinded-by-love characters in it. It will be an honor to work with her," Schulman also told www.comingsoon.net. Shulman will herself write the screenplay.

A fable about the decline of privacy, the author’s fifth novel is the story of 15-year-old tenth grader Jake, who receives a video with salacious sex photos of his admirer, 13-year-old Daisy. He forwards it, and when it goes viral, his family is embroiled in a digital scandal, which threatens to destroy the family. Bier’s so far only Hollywood movie is Things We Lost In the Fire (2007).

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