Julie Delpy

[HeatherAnne]

She is wonderful, and so naturally gorgeous, that article makes me want to watch Sunrise & Sundown both again.

 

[marjanthelion]

i saw her in paris at a cafe and she rushed in and out, looking very angry
i felt bad for her

 

[lucy92]

i saw her speak at a museum in 2004 after "before sunset" came out. she looked even more gorgeous in person.

i hope she works on some big projects so she'll get more press.

its almost criminal how "undercast" she is.

 

[Doll_Parts]

She's amazing.

 

[beauxgoris]

ever since isaw before sunset, i wanted to have her black top nd beige jacket.
does any1 by chance know who was it by?

I don't know but I'd love to!

 

[HeatherAnne]

^ Nope, but man it was perfect on her. The open tie back on that black tank was so gorgeous. Very French chic before it became all the rage everywhere.

There's a ton of pictures on page 4 of the outfit, seems to be a reoccurring question in this thread.

I can't wait to see 2 Days in New York with her and Chris Rock, as I adore them both and enjoyed 2 Days in Paris.

daylife

 

[beauxgoris]

^^Yes the black tank top is tdf. It looks a bit like Isabel Marant? But does the movie pre-date her line? I wish I could find something like that: the square neck, eyelet straps and open back. Love it!

 

[Virginielle]

I hadn't even heard of that! Awesome. I've seen 2 Days in Paris waaay more times than is ok.

 

[beauxgoris]

^ Nope, but man it was perfect on her. The open tie back on that black tank was so gorgeous. Very French chic before it became all the rage everywhere.

There's a ton of pictures on page 4 of the outfit, seems to be a reoccurring question in this thread.

I can't wait to see 2 Days in New York with her and Chris Rock, as I adore them both and enjoyed 2 Days in Paris.

*Please don't quote pictures*

daylife

She's making a sequel?

 

[HeatherAnne]

^ Yep, here's the plot from IMDB:

Marion (Delpy) has broken up with Jack (Two Days in Paris) and now lives in New York with their child. But when her family decides to come visit her, she's unaware that the different cultural background held by her new American boyfriend Mingus (Rock), her eccentric father, and her sister Rose who decided to bring her ex-boyfriend along for the trip, added to her upcoming photo exhibition, will make up for an explosive mix.

She also has another movie Skylab coming out:

Julie Delpy is a busy woman. After the recent announcement that she would be filming a New York-set sequel to her directorial debut "2 Days In Paris," comes news from Comme Au Cinema that she is also set to direct a French language comedy called "Skylab." This will be her fourth movie as a director - her latest film, "The Countess," with Daniel Brühl and William Hurt, is yet to come out. Filming will begin in June, for a period of seven weeks.

Skylab was a NASA space station that came crashing to earth in 1979, six years after going into orbit. Delpy's film, touted as the chronicle of a generation, will focus on an eccentric family around the time of this event. It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows Delpy's artistic hold on her films - she wrote, directed, produced, acted in and composed the music for "2 Days In Paris" - that she is going to act in this one, too. Among the cast are her fellow director/actress Noémie Lvovsky and Eric Elmosnino, currently hot property in France following his performance as Serge Gainsbourg in the acclaimed "Gainsbourg vie héroïque." - the playlist

She is such a talented woman.

 

[lucy92]

here new film just won the top prize at san sebastian. guardian.co.uk

Family valued ... Julie Delpy accepts the San Sebastián film festival special jury prize for Le SkyLab. Photograph: Vincent West/Reuters

News reports about the UARS satellite falling to Earth came just a few days too late for the San Sebastián film festival world premiere of Julie Delpy's fourth directing project. That was a shame – it'd have been quite the PR stunt for Le Skylab, her family comedy set around the falling of the titular space station in 1979, which won the special jury prize at the Spanish event on Sunday. The preoccupation with where it might land caused something of a media circus at the time – a San Francisco newspaper offered $10,000 for the first piece of the wreckage to be delivered to its offices – and it clearly played on the mind of the then 10-year-old Delpy.
"A lot of the lines in the film are literally out of my memory [of the time]," says Delpy, lounging on a sofa. "And some characters are based on people I knew. The main little girl in the film, Albertine, is basically me."
Le Skylab charts the coming together of an extended family on a summer's day in Brittany. Only one of the characters – Albertine's mother, Anna, played by Delpy herself – seems at all worried about Skylab's impending crash-landing. The rest concern themselves with traditional family preoccupations: sex, squabbling and politics.
"It's a movie about people coming together to drink and eat lamb," says Delpy. "I wanted it to feel like an idyllic afternoon with an undertone that something could happen, just like the Skylab is lurking to fall on to them. There's also a bit of tension – you can sense that there are political differences between these people. As the day progresses, they get more drunk, more tired, and things start to come out."
The film is richly comic. Bright, summertime colours intersperse with the period swagger of the late 70s and the soundtrack buzzes with popular classics. But there are also plenty of darker moments. Delpy's real-life father, Albert, plays the mentally ill Uncle Herbert, a character who is equal parts comic and tragic, particularly during a failed attempt to hang himself with a hosepipe.
"I like to mix serious subjects – like the uncle trying to kill himself and being saved by the children – with the humour," says Delpy. "To me it's important: life is made of dark and light moments going back and forth, and it just never stops. The typical family is a mix of light and dark."
For Delpy's avatar, Albertine (played by newcomer Lou Avarez), the trip to visit her aunts, uncles and cousins is as much about the start of her sexual awakening as it is about seeing the old folk. She falls for the teenage blond boy she meets on a nudist beach and fools around, playing doctors and nurses, with her pre-teen cousins.
"I definitely played doctors with my cousins," laughs Delpy, covering her face with embarrassment. "Boys, girls, everyone mixed together. It was a big party. I had 25 cousins so, you know, every summer we had a lot of fun. We didn't all play doctors together – some were older. It wasn't an orgy, or anything. It stayed pretty cute."
Falling for the boy on the beach is based on a real experience of Delpy's, though unlike the "Blue Lagoon fantasy" boy of the film, he wasn't blond. "I had my first crush when I was 11 or 12, and didn't get the guy, obviously," she laughs. "He was older and I was kind of chubby and with glasses. No one wanted me! I think he's a pilot now."
The film doesn't shy away from depicting these first flushes of sexuality honestly – something Delpy knows may be controversial. "Children's sexuality is so taboo, and people are saying it's so bad," she sighs. "I know I'm going to be killed for saying it, but I believe exploring sexuality is not something horrible for children. If no one's forcing anyone and it's pure experimenting, I believe it's good for children. I explored sexuality when I played doctors with my cousins, and I don't believe there was anything traumatic about those experiences at all."
Delpy says she doesn't worry about her two-year-old son, Leo, keeping these sorts of secrets from her as he grows up. "It's his choice. But, even at two and a half, I see the way he looks at women – it's really funny. I'm rarely naked in front of him, because I don't run around naked that much, but if I am, he looks at me like you have no idea. You can already see his interest in women, but it's very pure and cute. He wants to touch breasts, all the time!"
She bursts out laughing. "Well, not all the time, but every once in a while."

 

[HeatherAnne]

She's so ridiculously talented, the film sounds wonderful, can't wait to see it.

 

[Mirik]

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[HeatherAnne]

I was surprised to hear this news

Ethan Hawke Planning To Reunite With Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy To Write Third 'Before Sunrise' Film

Despite a brief flirtation with major stardom, Ethan Hawke has stayed relatively true to the independent scene with his relationship with fellow Texan Richard Linklater seemingly personifying this notion. The two have teamed up for no less than six films including "Waking Life," "Tape," "The Newton Boys," "Fast Food Nation" and, of course, "Before Sunrise" and its sequel "Before Sunset." While Hawke and Linklater also have their long-term project "Boyhood" in the works as well (more on that later), it looks like the two are at it again plotting a reunion with Julie Delpy for a third installement of the uber-popular 'Before...' series.


In an ingeniously structured interview with French outlet Allocine, which used music cues to draw out honest, candid responses from the actor about his filmography, the 'Before…' series was brought into the conversation by co-star/scribe Delpy's 2004 song "Je T'aime Tant" which yielded an interesting response from Hawke about the how immediate their plans may be.


"Well, I don't know what we're going to do but I know the three of us have been talking a lot in the last six months," Hawke revealed. "All of three of us have been having similar feelings that we're ready to revisit those characters. There's nine years between the first two movies and, if we made the film next summer, it would be nine years again so we're really started thinking that would be a good thing to do. We're going to try write it this year."


It does seem like an unrealistic aim to write the film by year's end and have production get underway 6 months after that, the 'Before...' films are relatively small productions, so anything is possible. And at the moment, their schedules aren't too busy eitheras Linklater is finished on "Bernie," Hawke recently wrapped lensing on "Total Recall" with Delpy's slate looking relatively free.


The interview also touched on Linklater's "Boyhood" which Hawke reaffirmed was "a movie about childhood. We've been making a short film once a year for nine years and it follows the life of a little boy from the time he's six to his eighteen. We have a few more years to go but we're almost done with it. I play his father, the little kid's the lead of the movie. It's a movie about time. You'll watch us all age in the movie, it's about growing up -- I can't wait for people to see it."


The actor also adds that he was set to feature in "Gattaca" helmer Andrew Niccol's fallen project "The Cross" (the musical cue was Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth"; the opening credit's for their second collaboration "Lord Of War"). The project was building a fairly solid cast including Orlando Bloom, Olga Kurylenko, Vincent Cassel and John Goodman for the story of a man in the near future trying to be the first to cross a mysterious border while a guard will go to any lengths to stop him.
"I feel like he should have a pass from the government and they should let him make any movie he wants, " Hawke reavealed. "The trouble with him is that his ideas for movies are often very expensive. I was going to do another movie , a script of his that's such a brilliant story. It was another science fiction movie, beautiful, called the 'The Cross.' Maybe someone will give us some money to make that. I really want to make that movie." Hawke admits he has yet to see "In Time," however, and probably hasn't spoken to Niccol recently as it looks like the director is set to next tackle an adaptation of "Twilight" novelist Stephanie Meyer's "The Host" starring Saoirse Ronan.


Either way, it's highly exciting to see Hawke, Linklater and Delpy at least plan to reunite for another 'Before...' series film. Are we looking at "After Sunrise" here? "After Sunset"? Or could we be moving onto something else entirely? If things pan out, we're sure we'll hear more about this soon enough.


indiewire, the playlist

 

[LADCchick]

When I read about the nine year gap between both Before... movies and the possible nine year gap between the second and third, I thought, "No way has it been close to nine years!" Sure, enough, Before Sunset came out in 2004. Time flies! I adored both movies, and I'd be interested in knowing what the premise would be for this third go-round. The last one ended with the audience not knowing if he decided to stay at her place and blow off his flight, or if he ended up going to the airport after all.

 

[HeatherAnne]

She's directing a movie on The Clash's Joe Strummer = offically the coolest lady on the planet. Ridiculous

Working For The Clampdown: Julie Delpy To Direct Joe Strummer Biopic 'The Right Profile'

Julie Delpy's become quite the renaissance woman in recent years. The French actress, discovered by Godard at the age of 14 before going into international stardom in "Europa Europa" and "Three Colors White," has worked principally in U.S. fare in the last decade-and-a-half, in films from "Broken Flowers" to, um, "An American Werewolf in Paris," but it's her behind-the-scenes achievements that are the most impressive.

She co-wrote the follow-up to U.S. breakthrough "Before Sunrise," "Before Sunset," with Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke, and won an Oscar nomination for her trouble (with a third film potentially in the works, as we revealed this morning), and has since gone on to direct the well-received comedy "2 Days in Paris," which itself will get a sequel, "2 Days In New York," co-starring Chris Rock, next year, as well as the Elizabeth Bathory biopic "The Countess." Delpy, who's always been something of a counter-culture icon, has just landed another directorial gig, and it's potentially her biggest to date, examining as it does one of the true legends of rock'n'roll.


The polymath is, according to Variety, now attached to direct a biopic of Joe Strummer, the late frontman of the greatest band in history (and we will fight anyone who disagrees), The Clash, entitled "The Right Profile," which, of course, is the name of a track off the group's masterpiece "London Calling." The picture will apparently focus on Strummer's disappearance from public life shortly before the release of "Combat Rock," the last album with the group's original line up, in 1982.


While the trade don't say as much, the presence of producer Simon Halfon ("Sleuth") reveals that the project is the one formerly known as "Joe Public," announced just over a year ago. 'Public' was set up at Film4 with Paul Viragh, who penned the Andy Serkis-starring Ian Dury biopic "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll," writing the script, but it's unclear whether Delpy is starting from scratch, or whether Film4 are still involved.
It's not the only Clash-related project in the works as well; Jez Butterworth, writer of theatrical masterpiece "Jerusalem," is writing an unnamed project based around the making of "London Calling" at Ruby Films ("Tamara Drewe," "Jane Eyre"). Last we heard, that film had surviving band members on board as executive producers, and exclusive rights to the film's music, which would seem to give it a natural advantage, but word's been quiet for nearly a year, so maybe Delpy's appointment (perhaps inspired by the band's track "Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad"?) will give "The Right Profile" a head start?


theplaylist, indiewire

Also 2 Days in New York with Chris Rock, the followup to 2 Days in Paris, is rumored to be debuting at Sundance next year!

 

[Thefrenchy]

^Not going to lie, I'm super excited for 2 Days in New York; I just wish she hadn't picked Chris Rock whom I cannot stand...

 

[marjanthelion]

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