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Coup De Grace.(Nora Arnezeder)

Vogue

| April 01, 2009 | Palmer, Caroline; Steiker, Valerie | COPYRIGHT 2009 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker CAROLINE PALMER

Half-Austrian, half-Egyptian, and entirely gorgeous, Nora Arnezeder is French film's newest siren.

To find the star of his latest film, Paris 36, Academy Award-nominated director Christophe Barratier ( The Chorus ) took the old-fashioned route: He blanketed Paris with fliers and posted an advertisement on the Internet asking, simply, for a young girl who could sing and dance.

The response was overwhelming. Hundreds of women, including a wide-eyed nineteen-year-old named Nora Arnezeder, showed up to play the role of Douce, an inexperienced but headstrong chanteuse who joins a motley group of aging performers desperate to save an old vaudeville house in thirties Paris. It was the half-Austrian, half-Egyptian Arnezeder who caught Barratier's eye (and the equally discerning eye of the legendary producer Jacques Perrin). "She's quite interesting physically and a very fresh, very good singer," says Barratier. "But it was her fragility that made her the right person for the ...

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