A New Reason For Some Romain

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Ah, lovely. We don't get to talk about him on this side of the big sea too often and he's well worth talking about. Romain Duris is set to star opposite Audrey Tatou in a movie from Michel Gondry! The details via Slash:

"... [It's] an adaptation of Boris Vian‘s 1947 novel L’Écume des Jours. Translated in English as Froth on the Daydream or Foam on the Daze, it’s a bittersweet, offbeat romance that sounds like a perfect fit for Gondry’s playful sensibility.

... Vian’s surreal tale revolves around a wealthy young man named Colin, inventor of an “olfactory-musical invention” called the pianocktail. He meets and falls in love with a woman named Chloe, only for her to become ill when she gets a water lily in her lung. The only way for Colin to treat her sickness is by constantly surrounding her with flowers, which eventually drains his funds.

Meanwhile, Colin’s married friends Chick and Alise suffer problems of their own when Chick becomes so obsessed with the philosopher Jean-Sol Partre that he begins devoting all of his time, money, and attention to collecting Partre’s books. Fantastical inventions, poetic diseases, poignant young love, and a healthy serving of humor — if that doesn’t sound like the ideal Gondry project, I don’t know what does.

Bleeding Cool reports that the project is set to begin production in March..."

I love the idea of Gondry making a period movie, and I love the idea of Duris and Tatou starring in a period movie for Michel Gondry, so this is all pretty exciting, ain't it? Also exciting, these naked pictures of Duris after the jump.

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Lovely. But no, I don't know what movie these are supposed to be from, so anybody who knows can tell me in the comments. I haven't seen it whatever it is.

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