Claire Denis has spent over 10 years dreaming of adapting “The Stars at Noon,” but didn’t believe it could happen.
In 2020, A24 announced the 1984-set thriller would star Robert Pattinson and Margaret Qualley, marking a reunion between Denis and Pattinson after her ambitious outer space drama “High Life.” Yet after Pattinson exited “Stars” due to production delays on “The Batman” amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Denis was seemingly back at square one.Enter her latest film, “Fire.” “I thought maybe ‘The Stars at Noon’ would never exist, so maybe this is my last film,” Denis told her friend, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, during a talk at New York’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, presented by Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center.
“I don’t know, it was a weird thing.”“Fire,” also known as “Both Sides of the Blade” in its original title, was filmed during the lockdown with DIY tactics like
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