Léa Seydoux will star alongside Josh O’Connor in Luca Guadagnino‘s film ‘Separate Rooms,’ an adaptation of the eponymous novel by the late Italian writer Pier Vittorio Tondelli.
In an interview with S Moda, Seydoux said she is preparing to shoot Guadagnino’s ‘Separate Rooms’ with O’Connor. The story follows Leo (O’Connor), an Italian writer who is dealing with the loss of his musician boyfriend Thomas.
In Separate Rooms, Leo is an Italian writer in his thirties. His German lover, Thomas, is dead. On a plane to Munich, Thomas’s hometown, Leo slips into a reverie about their meeting and life in Paris, nights in Thomas’s flat in Montmartre, and a desperate, drug-induced flight through the forests of northern France that marks the end of their languid, erotic life together. Leo travels to find anonymity. Structured in three musical movements, Separate Rooms is a story of ideal love, broken by absence and separation. When Thomas was alive, he and Leo had separate rooms to preserve the urgency of their passion. Now, Leo faces solitude, the impossible striving of memory to recreate life, and the hostility of a prejudiced world. Separate Rooms, Tondelli’s last book, is a powerful novel about the strength of love and the trauma of death.
Separate Rooms is being produced by Lorenzo Mieli and Fremantle. They also produced Guadagnino’s Bones and All, which won Best Director at Venice in 2022, and the upcoming Queer starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey, expected to premiere at Venice later this year.
In an interview with GQ, O’Connor said working with Guadagnino was a career highlight. He recalled Guadagnino’s analogy, saying: “Luca once told me: ‘Actors are like racehorses: You have to keep them in condition if you want them to run as fast as they can.’”
Seydoux’s upcoming projects include The Second Act (directed by Quentin Dupieux), Arthur Harari’s upcoming fantasy movie, The Thing That Hurts (directed by Arnaud Desplechin), Silent Friend (directed by Ildikó Enyedi), and Leos Carax’s upcoming movie. Meanwhile, Josh O’Connor’s upcoming films are Oliver Hermanus’ The History of Sound, co-starring Paul Mescal, and Karim Anouz’s Rosebushpruning, co-starring Kristen Stewart and Elle Fanning.
O’Connor recently starred in Guadagnino’s film ‘Challengers‘ alongside Zendaya and Mike Faist. The film is now available on digital platforms.
The release date for Separate Rooms has not been announced yet.
Source: Variety
