De Oliveira dwells on 'Belle' sequel
Deneuve passed on lead role
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"Belle toujours" will topline French actress Bulle Ogier, Oliveira said in Barcelona on Wednesday. He offered the lead to Catherine Deneuve, who starred in Bunuel's original, but she passed, Oliveira added.
Shooting in France next year, pic will be produced by Miguel Cadilhe at Filbox, which is based in Oliveira's native city of Oporto in Portugal.
Cadilhe took a producer credit on Oliveira's latest film, "Magic Mirror" (El espelho magico), which world preems in competition at the Venice Film Festival next month.
In Bunuel's original, a haute bourgeois wife locked into a frigid marriage and abused as a child takes a day job at a brothel where she is humiliated by clients. Her matrimonial relations improve.
Oliveira didn't detail the sequel's contents but it looks likely to stress the longevity of beauty and desire.
