THE PEARL THIEF
TO BE ADAPTED FOR THE BIG SCREEN
As Deadline reports, Bruna Papandrea's production house is set to adapt Fiona McIntosh's THE PEARL THIEF into a movie. Severine Kassel is asked by the Louvre in 1963 to aid the British Museum with curating its antique jewellery, her specialty. Her London colleagues find her distant and mysterious; her
cool beauty the topic of conversations around its quiet halls. No one could imagine that she is a desperately damaged woman, hiding her trauma behind her chic, French image.
It is only when some dramatic Byzantine pearls are loaned to the Museum that Severine’s poise is dashed and the tightly controlled life she’s built around herself is shattered. Her shocking revelation of their provenance sets off a frenzied hunt for Nazi Ruda Mayek.
Mossad’s interest is triggered and one of its most skilled agents comes out of retirement to join the hunt, while the one person who can help her – the solicitor handling the Pearls – is bound by client confidentiality. As Severine follows Mayek’s trail, there is still one lifelong secret for her to reveal – and one for her to discover.
From the snowy woodlands outside Prague to the Tuilieries of Paris and the heather-covered moors of Yorkshire comes a confronting and heart-stopping novel that explores whether love and hope can ever overpower atrocity in a time of war and hate.
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| Nick Drake will pen the script |
From the snowy woodlands outside Prague to the Tuilieries of Paris and the heather-covered moors of Yorkshire comes a confronting and heart-stopping novel that explores whether love and hope can ever overpower atrocity in a time of war and hate.
Sounds like an interesting story...we are watching a British psychological thriller ERIC now.
ReplyDeleteHave not heard of it before, hope it is good.
DeleteSo they are still filming Holocaust stories. Hope it's better than We Were the Lucky Ones.
ReplyDeleteShe said we need them now more than ever.
DeleteI also think we need the stories more now than ever. It seems history is on the brink of repeating itself, snd the new generation is keen on not getting their news from social media and don’t care to fact check any of what they discover. Allison alone infuriates me with what she parrots about the Palestine and Israel war. Most of her friends probably couldn’t find either on a map, but they sure have ave “opinions”.
ReplyDeleteIt is the fault of ya parents who did not beat them enough when they were younger LOL For them it is just an agenda to tick off, they know shit about the history of that place, politics and religion, pisses me off to no extent. Especially as they are prone to cancelling experienced opinions because they think older people were bigots or biased or whatever. Imagine thinking your 15 year old brain is smarter than hundreds of years of experience..... As I said you did not beat them enough...
DeleteI’m sorry to hear, Theresa, that you are one of the parents (all over America) beleaguered by rebellious children. You are right, most of these kids can’t find Gaza on the maps, but they are in search of an identity and grab what they can find following the woke indoctrination they ha receive in school and college. Five years ago, they were marching behind Greta Thunberg; three years ago, they were destroying monuments and screaming BLM slogans; and now it’s “From the River to the Sea.”
DeleteI disagree with Gattocito. Beating up children is not the solution. My mother slapped me silly until I was forty and she never changed my mind. The only lessons I got from her were those she imparted when she was calm and made sense. I’m not saying this is yr case, but I think parents in the Western World have left the raising of their children in the hands of strangers, and only now do they realize how dangerous curriculums and agendas are shaping their kids ‘minds.
I do appreciate that you and Gattocito still believe in the right of Israel to exist (don’t have to side with the government, I’m not entirely happy with BiBi either.) On the subject of the Holocaust, films are needed, good films not these lachrymose, cliché-ridden yarns crammed with disinformation. We call them ‘Holokitsch” and I’m watching one now ‘we Were the Lucky Ones.” “The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a different story, but then is Australian and one can always trust Aussies. It’s why I trust Bruna; I loved her noirs “Gone Girl” and “The Undoing.”
Indeed. Probably never should have let them online. It’s a great place for learning, but the idiotic ideals that they were also exposed to created a generation of ignorant twits. And they’ll be shocked when their own ignorance is their downfall. But they’ll still blame us old bigots for that, too.
DeleteJesus, Gattofila, I was not serious about beating, just being stricter. And your mamacitta did not beat you because you were bad but because she was crazy, if you were bad it probably would have influenced you to behave a bit better. These modern parents have made their kids undisciplined and too privileged and when you don't feel like you have to be good in order to deserve your place in society you behave like these brats today, disrespectful and ignorant and egotistic.
DeleteOh, Theresa don’t get me started on the Internet. Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if the internet had existed in the 80s. Truth speaking, the first seven years of the Internet were quite wonderful. The problem arrived with social networking and TikTok, places that went beyond jurisdiction and had no actual human beings moderating and monitoring them.
DeleteOf course, Gattocito, I was teasing. Moreover, beating children today lands the parents in jail and kids in foster care. Being strict means to me watching over your children. Do what my parents did, give them leeway but set rules. know what they read, what they watched, get to know their friends and teachers, but the system doesn’t let them. For decades, parents go to work, leaving the children in the hands of teachers, psychologists, you name it. They come home exhausted to face kids that are strangers and don’t want to engage with them in fear of facing a fight.
It's not a matter of privilege. I have a friend who is a Chicago high school teacher at a chartered school. 90% of his students are Hispanic from low-income home. Most of them are strongly anti-Israel. They have never met a Jew, or a Palestinian, and know zero about Zionism, but they see themselves as part of colonized nations and buy the crazy idea that Israelis colonize Palestinians.
They are all daft idiots which is exactly how the ruling establishment wants them. It is the same story with Serbia and Kosovo, deary. If you flip the story the way you like idiots will swallow it like a treat.
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