Unlike Apted’s planned version of the film as a straight thriller, says Canet, his adaptation focuses on the love story between Alex and Margot. I thought it was fun to show something else.” “For a long time, I played a lot of these naive, really gentle parts. “Nobody wanted to do the part,” the director says, laughing. Canet, who co-wrote the screenplay, also appears in a supporting role as a particularly vile young man. But when he receives an e-mail supposedly from his dead wife with a link to a recent video clip of her, Beck’s life is thrown into the maelstrom once more. also have been stellar.Ī pulsating romantic thriller, the film revolves around Alexandre Beck (Francois Cluzet), a pediatrician who has slowly been attempting to put his life in order after his wife, Margot (Marie-Josee Croze), was murdered by a serial killer eight years earlier. The film, which opened in Los Angeles on Wednesday, was a huge hit in France in 2006 and won several Cesar awards, including best director for Canet - the youngest French filmmaker to earn the honor. Do it yourself if you want to do it.’ He said it as a joke.” “He said, ‘I have known for a couple of days I’m not going to do it. “I looked at Michael Apted and said, ‘It’s amazing because I have been talking about you for a while because you are going to do a movie of a book that I loved,’ ” Canet recalls. But I was thinking about it all the time.”Īnd it was still weighing heavily on his mind at that luncheon.
I said to my producer, ‘I want to do this film.’ That’s how we heard the film was going to be made in the States by Michael Apted. “I was fascinated with all of those characters. “I saw all the work and the changes I wanted to make in it for a movie,” the baby-faced Canet said during a recent visit to Los Angeles. Apted’s next project at the time was to be an adaptation of Harlan Coben’s novel “Tell No One,” the very book that French actor-writer-director Canet was obsessing over, seeing in his head how he’d turn it into a film. Guillaume CANET couldn’t believe it when director Michael Apted sat down across from him at a luncheon in Los Angeles a while back.
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