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Friday, October 01, 2010

"The Tourist": It All Started When He Met A Woman

Sneak Peek the newest poster supporting the Columbia feature "The Tourist", a comedy-drama thriller, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, remaking the French-language feature "Anthony Zimmer".

Premise of the new film, follows an American tourist, used by an English woman in an attempt to flush out a criminal with whom she once had an affair.

"It's a love story, that's for sure", said director Henckel von Donnersmarck.

"Imagine a woman who is just so elegant and sophisticated and educated and has lived in that world and now, through a whole set of circumstances, suddenly falls in love with a guy who is not any of those things, and it just somehow confuses her whole world because that was not meant to happen. She had it all worked out, she had this grand master plan, and neither he nor she had thought it possible that they would fall in love with each other..."

"...'Frank' (Depp) is a tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. 'Elise' (Jolie) is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path in order to mislead all those following her former lover, 'Alexander Pearce', a criminal wanted in fourteen countries who has stolen money from a gangster and is being pursued by an agent (Paul Bettany). Against the breathtaking backdrop of Venice, Frank attempts to forge a potential romance but soon finds himself a target as he and Elise are caught in a whirlwind of intrigue and danger..."

"The Tourist" opens December 10, 2010.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Tourist"...