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MY SALINGER YEAR

By Philippe FALARDEAU

Comedy - Completed 2020

New York in the 90s: After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna gets hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger. BERLINALE OPENING FILM

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Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2020

Special Gala

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Countries
- CANADA, IRELAND
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 101 mn
- Director(s)
- Philippe FALARDEAU
- Writer(s)
- Philippe FALARDEAU
- Cast
- Sigourney WEAVER, Margaret QUALLEY
- Producer(s)
- Kim MCGRAW ( Micro_Scope), Luc DÉRY (Micro_Scope), Ruth CODY (Parallel Films), Susan MULLEN (Parallel Films)
- Synopsis
- New York in the 90s: After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna gets hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood- panelled office – where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze after three- martini lunches – and her nights in a sink-less Brooklyn apartment with her socialist boyfriend.
  Joanna’s main task is processing Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart- wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency’s impersonal standard letter and impulsively begins personalizing the responses. The results are both humorous and moving, as Joanna, while using the great writer’s voice, begins to discover her own.

MY SALINGER YEAR

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