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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2019 20:26:50 GMT
Assuming we lived in a world where he hadn't committed his heinous crime, which actress would you most like to see under his direction?
My first thought is Christina Hendricks - in her episode of The Romanoffs (also starring Huppert), she was frighteningly excellent in a twisted landscape very reminiscent of Polanski's oeuvre... Plus, how beautifully would he frame her perfect face?
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 14, 2019 20:40:12 GMT
Hmmmmmm..........I'm going to get in trouble since I think he should still be working actually and clearly (ie no one who committed that crime in the year prior, with no record, on that 1 count, in LA County, served any jail time at all - his 42 days were longer than anyone served and the Swiss didn't extradite him, so I think that's a strong case actually imo) but that's a different thread. I'll say Huppert was pretty much made for him - multiple languages (like himself), worked with his doppelganger in many ways, multiple times (Chabrol) an actress like him of great intelligence and wicked wit - not afraid to go dark. Greatest actress ever and greatest director ever - too easy. I'd also say however I'd see him using Cate Blanchett exceedingly well and she's 50 or so, where I could see her casting her as a beautiful woman - he'd love to shoot that very cinematic face - or casting her as a woman who feels her youth has slipped away. She's too young for that but I often think of the great Chabrol film Betty - Polanski could have done that perfectly and Huppert or Blanchett could have been the Stéphane Audran character.....Blanchett could play both actually! Maybe my beloved Adèle Haenel who I have said is the younger version of Huppert - artistically even - and who I would cast in any role for any director at this point  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2019 22:04:57 GMT
Hmmmmmm..........I'm going to get in trouble since I think he should still be working actually and clearly (ie no one who committed that crime in the year prior, with no record, on that 1 count, in LA County, served any jail time at all - his 42 days were longer than anyone served and the Swiss didn't extradite him, so I think that's a strong case actually imo) but that's a different thread. What I meant in my OP was that had he not committed the crime, he'd be afforded more opportunities now. I don't have strong opinions on whether or not he should be allowed to work - I love his films and am able to enjoy them despite his past, but I understand and accept the outrage. |
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jun 14, 2019 22:23:57 GMT
Oh honey, Julianne Moore in a kind of Rosemary's Baby meet Repulsion type role...
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 15, 2019 14:56:20 GMT
I really don't think there is any special criterion for this. Polanski has worked all kinds of actors and actresses and done some great job.
Having said that, I love Cate Blanchett and would really like to see her pairing with Polanski.
From French-speaking actresses, a collaboration with Marion Cotillard would be great.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2019 15:30:59 GMT
I really don't think there is any special criterion for this. Polanski has worked all kinds of actors and actresses and done some great job. Yes, but obviously post-#MeToo, he isn't going to have his choice of top actresses as he did for decades. |
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 15, 2019 15:57:01 GMT
I really don't think there is any special criterion for this. Polanski has worked all kinds of actors and actresses and done some great job. Yes, but obviously post-#MeToo, he isn't going to have his choice of top actresses as he did for decades. I know. So we're supposed to choose some lesser known actresses? |
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Post by thomasjerome on Jun 15, 2019 16:03:08 GMT
I'm gonna mention another "The Romanoffs" actress: Diane Lane
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 15, 2019 16:21:10 GMT
I know this is outside the thread but wouldn't it be exciting, artistically to see someone you'd never expect work with him like Natalie Portman - now I'm not saying her specifically, she can do what she wants. But many times the greatest Art in film and otherwise has come from this clash of sensibilities within the Art itself.
In that way #metoo is like a US political movement in the worst sense (although obviously in the good sense too) - in artists are preserving their "brand" (hate that BS term) at the expense of collaborative opportunities - as we do politically too.
Recently someone posted Christopher Nolan's favorite 30 films and I commented on one specifically in that thread Bad Timing (1980) - a film that's well, um, problematic in a lot of ways ..........but what would you rather see in a remake of that:
Anybody directing and starring anybody or Roman Polanski directing and Natalie Portman starring specifically?
It's the latter obviously because something great could come of it (theoretically).....
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2019 16:33:32 GMT
Yes, but obviously post-#MeToo, he isn't going to have his choice of top actresses as he did for decades. I know. So we're supposed to choose some lesser known actresses? In the OP, I said, "Assuming we lived in a world where he hadn't committed his heinous crime..." I really didn't expect this to be so difficult... |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2019 16:34:27 GMT
Anybody directing and starring anybody or Roman Polanski directing and Natalie Portman starring specifically? It's the latter obviously because something great could come of it (theoretically)..... And something great did! |
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 15, 2019 16:51:30 GMT
I know. So we're supposed to choose some lesser known actresses? In the OP, I said, "Assuming we lived in a world where he hadn't committed his heinous crime..." I really didn't expect this to be so difficult... That's why I chose Blanchett and Cotillard. But that's my point: We could just choose anybody. I'd like all of the great actresses Ι love to work with Polanski, no strings attached: Why not Meryl Streep or Faye Dunaway for example... |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2023 0:58:01 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 2, 2023 1:37:55 GMT
Would love it. In fact, her short film for that Homemade project was kinda like Repulsion. If Polanski has one more in him.... maybe an update/twist on Knife in the Water, with KStew as the outsider, Camille Cottin and Romain Duris the older couple, naturally. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 2, 2023 2:29:15 GMT
I think Stewart would have been right up his alley at one point - Polanski would often talk about how an actresses look can play into his films whole aesthetic and sometimes the way he shaped and saw films - Faye Dunaway reminding him of how his mother looked in Chinatown for one......or Farrow's modernity.....and how that fits with other things that make up a big part of his work - costumes, production design in some ways even - and um, actress make-up (below!) I think Stewart is just loved by the camera and Polanski could build something around her - though I'm not sure how many he has left - basically An Officer and A Spy was the perfect way to say goodbye, but..... I think Stewart's look - her sort of quavering fragility / resolve (or something like that) appeals to a lot of filmmakers - and I said recently Love Lies Bleeding could be a really fascinating film and maybe why Rose Glass chose her too..... I mean you could do a highlight reel of Stewart and her interesting and odd physicality already - I'm thinking of the way she shakes from being wet and cold in Adventureland even - things like that ....she conveys a lot around her eyes when she has the right role .....posture too....Polanski would have loved that I'm sure....  |
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