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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 ...