As a co – producer, Ly Nha Ky will be participating in the movie “E-book” by director Olivier Assayas, and the famous producer Charles Gillibert. Starring as the lead female character is the Oscar winning actress Juliette Binoche.
This partnership for E-book started in Cannes Film Festival 2017 in May. Director Olivier Assayas and producer Charles Gillibert were introduced to Ly Nha Ky as a Vietnamese Tourism Sponsor and Representative through the promotional panels across the red carpet. To Ly Nha Ky, this could be a new milestone in her film career.
The three had meetings prior to production in Paris during autumn. It was announced that the movie will be called E-book, and the shooting time will be this year November and December, expecting to be finished by Christmas 2017. The movie will be in competition for many international film festivals in 2018.
Sitting in the director chair is Olivier Assayas, a director, screenwriter and film critic, as well as the former husband of super star Maggie Cheung. His career was marked with 5 movies nominated for the Golden Palm of Cannes 2000, 2002, 2004, 2015, and 2016. Among them was Après Mai (Best original script in Venice Film Festival 2012), Sils Maria (nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay in Cannes 2015). His newest movie “Personal Shopper”, released in Viet Nam as “Tro Ly Thoi Trang”, had brought him the title of Best Director in Cannes 2016.
The main character will be played by the gorgeous and talented Juliette Binoche – who did work with director Olivier Assayas in “Clouds of Sils Maria” – a movie nominated for the Golden Palm of 2014. Juliette Binoche is famously known in Vietnam from “The English Patient,” the movie that brought her an Academy Award for Best supporting Actress.
And Guillaume Canet, husband to the French rose Marion Cotillard, will be the lead male character.
The male main character will be played by Guillaume Canet, husband to the French rose Marion Cotillard. Guillaume himself is also a director and actor, he won the title Best Director (the Cesar Award) for the movie “Ne le dis à personne”, and Best Lead Actor (the Cesar Award) for “La Prochaine fois je viseral le coeur by Cesdric Anger”. Us Vietnamese moviegoers knew him in “The Beach” by Danny Boyle, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Guillaume Canet was married to German beauty Diane Kruger from 2001 to 2006. Since 2017 he has been together with Marion Cotillard. The have 2 kids and live together happily ever since.
For the producer Charles Gillibert, he is considered as one of the most powerful producers in Europe. He is Olivier Assayas’s partner in many projects such as “Summer Hours” (2007), “Something in the Air” (2012), “Clouds of Sils Maria” (2014) and “Personal Shopper” (2016). Including the movie Mustang, nominated for an Oscar of “Best Foreign Film”, and won 4 titles in the Cesars Award in France.
