27/05/2003 - English rose is French filmmakers' muse: after Swimming Pool she's signed on for this autumn's Vers le Sud by the man who brought us Human Resources

From Provence to the Caribbean. English actress Charlotte Rampling gets all the best locations. After playing a novelist with writer’s block in François Ozon’s Swimming Pool [+see also:
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film profile], she was cast by Laurent Cantet as a romantic American in Vers le Sud [+see also:
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interview: Laurent Cantet
interview: Robin Campillo
interview: Simon Arnal-Szlovak
film profile].
For once, Cantet has put his political passion for employment issues to one side (his last two features being L’emploi du temps and Human Resources) and gone for a screen adaptation of "La Chair du maître" by Dany Laferrière.
Cantet also wrote the screenplay with Robin Campillo, setting the tale on Haiti where two American women staying at a small hotel in the capital, Port-au-Prince, fall for the same boy. Vers le Sud will be produced by Cantet’s regular business partners, Haut et Court and it is scheduled to go into production this autumn.