Based on a True Story

2017
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Title: Based on a True Story

Original Title: D'après une histoire vraie

Year: 2017

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Plot

Roman Polanski's new french thiller/drama tells the story of writer Delphine de Vigan (played by Emmanuelle Seigner) who after the success of her debut novel about her mother's story begins to receive a lot of letter of admirers. But not all of the feedback is possitive. In one of these letters some anonymous person blames her for the misfortune of her entire family. Suffering from depression and writer's block, Delphine will start a romantic relationship with a seductive, younger and mysterious woman who defines herself as a "ghost writer" (played by Eva Green) who seems to understands her more than anyone else.

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Roman Polanski Roman Polanski

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Trivia

The fifth movie with his wife

This will be Roman Polanski's fifth collaboration with his wife Emmanuelle Seigner, who he met on the film 'Frenético' (1988)

Back to french

This is Eva Green's return to French cinema after exclusively doing English-language films and television for the last 13 years

The seventh at Cannes

This is the seventh Roman Polanski film to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival.

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