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Pascal Bonitzer Takes Art World Inspiration for ‘Auction,’ Charts New Course for Georges Simenon’s Maigret (EXCLUSIVE)
Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris will kick off Tuesday with the world premiere of Pascal Bonitzer’s 'Auction,' an ensemble drama set in the art world.
Produced by SBS Productions (“Last Summer,” “Elle”) and sold by Pyramide International, the art-world saga follows – among others – a hotshot auctioneer (Alex Lutz, “Vortex”), his less-than-reliable assistant (Louise Chevillotte, “Benedetta”), and the working class bloke (Arcadi Radeff, “Passages”) who sets the narrative in motion upon realizing that his erstwhile innocuous wall art bears the signature of Egon Schiele. “On the one hand, these auctioneers need to play a game – they must seduce potential sellers, wresting artifacts from the competition [with a show of confidence]. Though Simenon’s barrel-chested commissaire was last brought to the screen by Gérard Depardieu in Patrice Leconte’s 2022 “Maigret,” Bonitzer has a different vision for the character and another artistic goal.
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