The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival line-up has been unveiled (we all got the press release, but Deadline seems to have received a quick first look). So far the festival has announced that”Shrek 4″ aka “Shrek Forever After” will open the festival, but big name films are few and far between so far. But it is early days and bigger, more A-list films are still expected to be announced (not that we want like a gigantic blockbuster there, but you know…).
The biggest film announced so far, for us anyway, is “Gainsbourg, Je t’Aime…Moi Non Plus” — formerly known as “Serge Gainsbourg: A Life Heroic” (and that’s still the title in France, ‘A Vie Heroique’). Directed by Joann Sfar, if you’ve read the Playlist in the last year you know we’ve followed this film very closely as the raffish Gainsbourg is an icon for both discerning cinephiles and musicologists.
Relative unknown Eric Elmosnino plays Gainsbourg , Lucy Gordon (who committed suicide earlier this year, RIP) plays his famous chanteuse wife, Jane Birkin (the mother of Charlotte Gainsbourg), former French Supermodel Laetitia Casta stars as Brigitte Bardot, Anna Mouglalis (“Coco Chanel & Stravinsky“) is playing elegant chanson singer Juliette Gréco, actress Sara Forestier (“Perfume: The Story of a Murderer“) will play mousy, French yé-yé singer France Gall and French/Chinese actress Mylène Jampanoï will portray singer actress, Bambou, who was Gainsbourg’s muse and girlfriend near the end of his life. Celebrated French actress Yolande Moreau is also in the film (more casting information here).
Also showing of note is a work-in-progress viewing of an Alex Gibney documentary (Academy Award winning director of “Taxi to the Dark Side”) about Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor that will be shown as a special event.
Here’s few more of our selects that you should look out for.
– “Lucky Life,” directed by Lee Isaac Chung, written by Chung and Samuel Gray Anderson. When one of them falls ill, a group of friends takes one last trip to the beach.
– “The Two Escobars,” directed by Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist. Born in the same city in Colombia but not related, Andres Escobar and Pablo Escobar shared a love of soccer.
– “Open House,” directed and written by Andrew Paquin (brother of Anna Paquin). A man watches over his sexually predatory partner and her violent urges.
Here’s the entire line-up (so far… we hope).