French actor and director Louis Garrel, who gained international fame starring in Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Dreamers,” is at the Venice Film Festival with a film by another Italian auteur, Nanni Moretti‘s “It Will Happen Tonight.”
The romantic drama, which is competing for the prestigious Golden Lion, stars Garrel as Matteo, the male lead of a pair of star-crossed lovers opposite Greta, played by Italian A-lister Jasmine Trinca (“La Storia”). The film reunites Moretti with Trinca, who made her acting debut in “The Son’s Room” in 2001, when she was 18, and subsequently appeared in the “The Caiman.”
But “It Will Happen Tonight” marks Moretti’s first collaboration with Garrel, who recently starred in French blockbusters “The Three Musketeers” parts one as well as opposite Angelina Jolie in Alice Winocour’s “Couture.” It’s also his first-ever role in the Italian language.
Garrel spoke with Variety in Venice about the “Moretti method” on set, how it applied to his sexual scenes with Trinca and why he’s comfortable with the film being called an elevated soap opera.
How did Moretti approach you for this film?
