A film based on Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s 2011 misadventures in Midtown and subsequent legal storm, titled “Welcome to New York,” is set to make its debut in Cannes at a private screening.
After the screening, the movie’s stars, including Gérard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bisset, along with Bronx-born director Abel Ferrara, were expected at a Nikki Beach bash on the Riviera a night later.
A source said the film’s French distributor, Wild Bunch, hatched a novel way to celebrate by setting up an area of the party as a hotel room reminiscent of the Sofitel, where DSK’s infamous sexcapade with a maid took place. Guests will be given “plush white robes as take-away gifts” for the night, we’re told.
Also at the bash were faux Viagra pills and a “Viagra Bar” with shots served in syringes. A gift bag included condoms.
A midnight screening on Friday night on the beach was rescheduled for Saturday at 9p.m. for 200 guests.
The distributor, which was also behind Cannes hit “The Artist,” is releasing the movie in France on Saturday. IFC Films has bought US rights.
Variety called the movie “a bluntly powerful provocation that begins as a kind of tabloid melodrama and gradually evolves into a fraught study of addiction, narcissism and the lava flow of capitalist privilege.”