Australia’s Aurora Films To Adapt Cult French Writer Hervé Guibert’s Novella ‘Crazy For Vincent’
deadline.comSydney-based production company Aurora Films is developing an adaptation of late French writer and photographer Hervé Guibert’s 1989 novella Crazy for Vincent.
The autobiographical work charts the author’s infatuation with the titular Vincent Marmousez, a young tearaway who came in and out of his life over the course of six years, before falling to his death from a third-floor window while under the influence of drink and drugs.
The company has optioned the novella and is planning a French-language production which will shoot in France and Europe, with post-production taking place in Australia.
Casting is underway with the company aiming to announce a start of shoot date by Cannes in May. Australian director Jamieson Pearce, a recipient of the Lexus Short Film Fellowship with credits including Adult (SXSW) and Strangers, has adapted the novella and will make his feature directorial debut with the production. “Hervé Guibert’s writing is fearless and unflinching.
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