Heading south
This year, Charlotte Rampling has four new films coming out. Three are by prominent directors, one is by an unknown New Zealander.
There’s assisted-dying drama Tout s’est Bien Passé, directed by François Ozon, who has cast her twice before, including in 2003’s erotic thriller Swimming Pool, which seemed to start a career revival that continues to this day.
She’s the abbess in Benedetta, an adaptation of the book Immodest Acts: The life of a lesbian nun in Renaissance Italy, directed by Paul Verhoeven, the old Dutch master of sex and violence. Both films were in competition last month at the Cannes Film Festival. And she’s Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam in Dune, the latest attempt by French-Canadian director Denis Villeneuve to bring Frank Herbert’s epic sci-finovel to the screen.
Clearly, at 75, Rampling does not lack for offers in
