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CANNES FILM FESTIVAL |
| Wearing (first set of pics): Versace (official site) Wearing (second set of pics): Chanel (official site) Promoting: Demon Lover...."If only the studios knew what to do with me!" says the sultry 27-year-old actress."I'm hoping to make a crossover soon. They have this idea of me as a street urchin!" Chloe Sevigny, she of the Kim Novak-like sexy slink and |
| ... a resident of Manhattan's Gramercy Park area, should not be surprised, given her roles up to now. But she's getting a chance to change her image in the French movie that brings her to Cannes, "Demonlover." On a hot Riviera afternoon, she sits in a makeshift festival tent, relaxed but exhausted, in a stunning black-crepe Chanel pants outfit and pointy black heels, and talks about her movies past and future. "Demonlover," directed by veteran French helmer Olivier Assayas, is a convoluted thriller immersed in the world of corporate opportunism and the merchandising of Japanese Web sites dealing with sexual torture. She portrays an American expatriate in Paris, Elise Lipsky, who is the personal assistant to a French executive who is temporarily poisoned out of commission by a steely, amoral company rival, another American played by |
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| ...Danish-born thesp Connie Nielsen ("Gladiator"). Slowly and surely, the subservient Elise reveals a tough, domineering side that is a screen first for Sevigny. And she had to speak mostly French. "What kind of American girl moves to Paris?" muses the actress. "Usually someone in the arts, from Middle America. I figured that Elise had a baby, the father wouldn't support it, and she got a job in a temp agency. I think it all became a game for her." Sevigny studied French intensively to get the role, which was written for a Gallic actress. She says she adored her female co-stars. (The male lead, played by French actor Charles Berling, is almost incidental.) "My favorite part of the film was down time with Connie. She's one of the least judgmental people I've ever met, and not at all into gossip." She admits that she did get severely homesick for Americans for three months, until the arrival of an actress with a supporting but strong - and trashy - role: Gina Gershon, whose part is almost an extension of her campy lead in "Showgirls." (Gershon's bloody catfight with Nielsen is reason enough to see the film.) "People in Paris are so closed in. It was such fun when Gina came on. She is just so loud - so American." |
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