“People know very little about him”: a film project about this great French creator!

Elsa Zilberstein is crazy about biographies! Coming off the back of Simone, Olivier Dahan’s Journey of the Century, in which she portrayed Simone Weil, and the recent announcement of Anne Fontaine’s biopic, which focuses on the romance between Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren, the French actress will produce and star. In a feature film inspired by the life of Christian Dior.

Elsa Zilberstein, a jury member for the new Impact Prize in Venice, told the magazine. variety that the film was written by Julien Teixaire, creator and screenwriter of the Plan Coeur series.

The film takes place over a decade from February 1947 to 1957 and tells the story of the beginnings of the fashion house Christian Dior, thanks to his right-hand man Raymond Zenacker and his love affair with a young man, Jacques Benita.

Apart from being a fashion flick, the biopic will explore the love triangle between Dior, Zenacher and Benita. Elsa Zilberstein portrays Raymond Zenacker, a powerful ally of the designer who was instrumental in Dior’s rise in the post-war fashion world of Paris. We still don’t know who will play Christian Dior.

The actress and producer, whose mother worked for Christian Dior perfumes for many years, said in the columns of an American newspaper:We like to say that behind every successful man there is a woman, and that was the case with Dior as well.”.

familiar world

He adds: “Christian Dior was a fiercely private man, so people know very little about him. He wasn’t as glamorous a character as other popular fashion designers or cultural icons, but he was fascinating none the less.

It’s a world I’m very familiar with because I grew up there through my mother. Christian Dior was a “normal gentleman” and he wasn’t from Paris, he came from Normandy. He was always cautious, but also very tenacious. That’s why his legacy lives on to this day.”

Elsa Zilberstein is also developing, through her company Sonia Films, a spy thriller about Sylvia Raphael, an Israeli Mossad agent born in South Africa who was involved in the Lillehammer case, the 1973 assassination attempt on Ali Hassan Salame.

Died in 1957 aged 52 of a heart attack, Christian Dior will also be the subject of the AppleTV+ series The New Look. Ben Mendelsohn (Bloodline, Secret Invasion) plays Christian Dior, Juliette Binoche is Coco Chanel, Maisie Williams plays Catherine Dior, and John Malkovich lends his features to Lucien Lelong.