Stars at Noon: How Director Claire Denis Made Her Romantic Thriller for the Pandemic Era
The year was 2020, early 2020: Robert Pattinson was scheduled to wrap his starring role as the Caped Crusader onThe Batmanwith plenty of time by that summer to jump into principal photography on a much smaller budget from the French production company Wild Bunchwith A24 securing US distribution. The film,Stars at Noon, based on Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel of almost the same name,The Stars at Noon(the film dropped the “the”), was to follow an American journalist stranded in Nicaragua during the Revolution of 1984 who, after falling in love with a mysterious Englishman she hoped could be her ticket out of the country, discovers that he is even hotter water than her....