Imogen Poots, Studio Magazine


By French Studio Magazine
November, 2008
Translated Fr vs ENG by Julien

Trouble at boarding school girls. Visit the filming in Dublin, the first film Scoot Jordan, the Ridley daughter. She heads Eva Green in "Crack" in the history feverish senssuelle and an English teacher in the forties will live a passion love for one of her students.

After several days of gray, the sun re-emerging on the green land of Ireland. That's here, in early summer, near Dublin remains in a wide overlooking a beautiful park, as Scott Jordan raised its cameras for the last week of shooting "Cracks", After Two courts, the daughter of Ridley Scott goes along. Its plot is located in 1934 in an austere boarding school girls in England where Miss G, Professor, is idolized by her students to dream in recounting her travels and exotic her passionate liaisons. Until day landing a young Italian. Miss G falls under the spell of this young girl, to the chagrin of other students. This will trigger a series drmaes of that will change forever the protagonists.
It's a friend who has do read this feverish history to Scott Jordan sensual and written by Ben Court and Caroline Hip, author of "The Hole" with Keira Knightley." I had never read a script with as so much resonance on what i could live," says nιorιalisatrice. Besides the wealth of this intrigue that goes from innocence to darkness." Of course, he needed an actress capable of sublimating the progression of this action in this character of teacher inspires her students before they cause, despite her feelings toward darker.

The actress named Eva Green. The French knows by the family Scott for under shot the direction of "Ridley in Kingdom of Heaven". She decided to plunge into the adventure of "Cracks" ... But not immediately: "Jordan wrote me a letter to accompany the scenario," says Eva between two taken, but this atmosphere of strict English boarding school was far from my culture. Then, in the rereading, I hung, especially the character of Miss G who lives in a world it creates herself makes of travels and adventure novels. She is a fantasy more mythomane. "Eva Green loves challenges, few months after played a dual role in Franklyn (See Studio No. 247), she required an impressive work to get the diction of the thirties.
Face it, Jordan Scott has hired a trio of young actresses that should win praise for the release of the film. starting with Maria Valerde in the role of the Italian who put the fire to the powder. Born in Spain in 1987, seen this year in "The prey", she was revealed in 2006 in "Melissa P." where she brilliantly embodied a young Sicilian in full sexual awakening. At her side, the two main boarding students are embodied by Juno Temple discovery in "Reviens-moi" and who will play Diane Kruger teenager in "Mr Nobody", Jaco Friday Dormael, ans by Imogen Poots seen in 28 weeks later. On the shooting, scenes are rich sequence shots, followed with speed and fluidity, Jordan Scott is like a fish in water with its actresses. "In my first short film, I was intimidated by directing a team. But this me past! That's especially my ability to endure the tight shooting (seven weeks very satisfied) who worried me. "Eva, she feared that the narrative switches past in a banal love story lesbians." co-produced by Ridley Scott and Alain Goldman (La mτme) "Cracks" will be room in 2009. Meanwhile, the director refines its mounting started filming in parallel, even under the weather Ireland, Jordan Scott has managed to keep pace.

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