14/05/2005

The talented US filmmaker Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven) is going to make his new Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not Here with Celluloid Dreams attached as international sales agent.

The ambitious project will have a line-up of international stars personifiying the various key characters who played important parts in the iconic singer’s career spread over five decades, such as Charlotte Gainsbourg, Colin Farrell, Adrian Brody, Richard Gere and Cate Blanchett. US producer Christine Vachon (Killer Films) who had already produced Haynes’ Far From Heaven, is co-producing the $25m film with Bob Dylan’s long time manager Jeff Rosen. Vachon had already chosen Celluloid Dreams last February to represent another of her films: Savage Grace, an adaptation of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel starring Julianne Moore.
"It feels great to continue our relationship with Celluloid Dreams" said Vachon. "They have been chasing this movie for more than a year now".

Celluloid Dreams has as many as 30 titles in Cannes including four films in official competition: Domink Moll’s opening film Lemming [+see also:
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interview: Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne
film profile], screening next Tuesday.

Also in official selection but out of competition is the children’s film Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages which was shown yesterday in the Grand Théâtre Lumiere.
Furthermore, Celluloid has one film at Un Certain Regard: François Ozon’s Le Temps qui reste [+see also:
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film profile] screening on Monday, two films in the Directors’ Fortnight: the Norwegian film Factotum [+see also:
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film profile] premiering tonight, and Kyle Henry’s US film Room premiering tomorrow. Finally Miranda July’s US film Me And You And Everyone We Know opened the International Critics Week.