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Pete Doherty goes from druggie to luvvie as he makes his film debut
The former Libertines frontman was reportedly 'literary and sincere' on the set of Confession of a Child of the Century
Pete Doherty is a man of many talents, some more dubious than others. First there was Doherty the singer, then Doherty the druggie wastrel, Doherty the jailbird and Doherty the boyfriend of model Kate Moss.
Now the enfant terrible of British rock has reincarnated once again as Doherty the actor. The singer has just finished shooting his first film in France, where he has attained cult status, not just as a musical star but as a poиte maudit, a tragic literary figure and tortured soul.
In Confession of a Child of the Century, Doherty, 32, stars opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg, daughter of British-born Jane Birkin and her late partner, Gallic bad boy Serge Gainsbourg, to whom many French fans believe Doherty bears more than a passing resemblance.
The Babyshambles and Libertines frontman plays Octavian,»
- Kim Willsher
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The new Red Riding Hood film is grim not Grimm
If you go down to the multiplex today, you're sure to find a watered-down take on a fairytale, says John Patterson
After seeing Catherine Hardwicke's toothless and clawless Red Riding Hood, I confess I'm not cheered to learn that her next movie will be a supernatural version of Hamlet. If she can't be trusted with kids' stuff, why should we let her go after the really big targets?
Red Riding Hood is being called Hardwicke's "revenge on the Twilight franchise", from which she was fired having directed the first instalment. I prefer to think of it simply as the waste by-product of the Twilight phenomenon: an even thinner, paler, more anaemic watering down of whatever Twilight was watering down in the first place. And what might that have been? Harry Potter? The Narnia franchise? The Lord Of The Rings? Anne Rice? We suddenly seem an awfully long way from»
- John Patterson
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