Spearheading the undertaking was Priest / producer Ellwood (Bud) Kieser,
who during the course of the filming — in and around Cuernavaca in Mexico — celebrated mass for the cast and crew on four occasions, each of them followed by a fiesta.
There's more involved than most of us had seen in 1973 in that Billie Jean, married to hunky Larry King (Austin Stowell), is a closet lesbian
who during the course of this film begins an affair with a hairdresser, Marilyn Barnett (Andrea Riseborough).
Not exact matches
In one
of the
film's most telling scenes, Reine,
who during the
filming was eking out a living teaching gymnastics to children, signs up for a Toastmasters
course.
His wife (Julie Christie) is a burned out actress
who had a child by another actor while married to Nick,
of course one day
during an arrugment she brings up the fact that the child
who is now 15 is not his, major mistake child hears runs away and so is the story line
of our
film.
It's got a decent director on - board (I really liked Act
of Valor), a great cast (including Michael Keaton
who I didn't even know was in the
film until I saw the TV spot
during the Super Bowl) and,
of course, killer stunts (which look phenomenal because they were largely shot for real).
The latest from Bertrand Tavernier («Round Midnight), this period drama is set in the 1500's,
during the reign
of Charles IX, when France was decimated by religious wars, as Catholics and Protestants slaughtered one another.Tavernier skillfully manages a romantic roundelay, in which three suitors vie for the love
of the Princess
of Montpelsier
who,
of course (it's a French
film, after all), is already married.
For artists Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler,
who have been collaborating together on video, photography, and sculpture work since 1990, the history
of film in Texas became their primary focus
during the
course of this five - year project.