Ending weeks of wild speculation, filmmaker Abel Ferrara has finally confirmed that he's going to bring former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s big silver head to the big silver screen. Le Monde reports that Ferrara—the man responsible for the films Bad Lieutenant, The Funeral, and, the seminal classic, 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy—has cast French actor Gérard Depardieu as the titular character and Isabelle Adjani as his wife Anne Sinclair.
If you recall, DSK was infamously accused of sexual assault by a New York hotel maid, Nafissatou Diallo, in May 2011. Charges were eventually dismissed, and Strauss-Kahn happily left this hellhole. The film will focus on the relations between DSK and Sinclair in the wake of the scandal; as an interview on Ferrara's website with screenwriter Christ Zois confirms, the film is “really going to talk about the relationship between two people - two people who are larger than life, but in many ways very much like ordinary people under stress.” Ah, DSK, your infidelity is our pleasure. C'est super!
