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Coming soon to a screen near you: Depardieu in L'affaire DSK

Posted by Billy Wonka on May 12, 2014 at 15:56:33:
Nothing like getting a big pig to play a bigger pig....
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Coming soon to a screen near you: Depardieu in L'affaire DSK

Directed by American Abel Ferrara – best known for The Driller Killer, Ms. 45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant and The Funeral – the film focuses on the arrest of Strauss-Kahn in New York in May 2011 and his indictment for allegedly attacking a Guinean chambermaid Nafissatou Diallo. After a long investigation, the charges were dropped amid questions about Diallo's credibility and evidence which prosecutors said left reasonable doubt.

Although names have been changed in the film – DSK has become Monsieur Devereauxand Anne Sinclair, his heiress wife, played by Jacqueline Bisset, is called Simone – the former politician's lawyers are on standby to launch legal action. The affair dashed Strauss-Kahn's hopes of being the Socialist candidate in France's 2012 presidential election – later won by François Hollande – and opened the floodgates to a series of legal cases. An investigation, still ongoing, was launched into his alleged involvement in a prostitution ring and sex parties at hotels in Lille, Paris and Washington.

Depardieu, who is reportedly living as a French tax exile in Russia, has made no secret he does not like Strauss-Kahn, but said the film was not a biopic of the former politician. "It's a story of power, solitude and decadence," he told journalists

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