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"  Best known for her riveting turn as a vengeful cinema owner in Quentin Tarantino&amp;#039;s Inglourious Basterds, M\u00E9lanie Laurent is reason alone to see The Concert. The French actress plays a gifted young violinist in Radu Mihaileanu&amp;#039;s forthcoming farce (opening Friday), about a onetime conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra who attempts to regain his standing 30 years after being dismissed for refusing to fire his Jewish musicians. We talked to Laurent about her latest role, her musical pursuits, and where to go after working with Tarantino. So, what attracted you to The Concert?   I was really surprised when I got the script, because it&amp;#039;s really rare to find in the same script something very political and very funny\u2014and with classical music. How has your life changed since Inglourious Basterds?  A lot\u2014and not really. I realize it&amp;#039;s big, but at the same time I&amp;#039;m just keeping on doing French movies. What did you learn from working with Tarantino that you&amp;#039;ve brought to your other projects?  I know it was really hard for me to make another movie after that one, because I loved working with him so much. I needed to take a break. I needed a beautiful script after that because it&amp;#039;s hard to play Shoshanna and then make another movie just to make another movie. So I just waited to have a very exciting project after that. And since then I&amp;#039;ve done beautiful French movies, and I&amp;#039;m also directing my own movie. I&amp;#039;m still writing the script so it&amp;#039;s hard to talk about, but it&amp;#039;s a comedy-drama about family and adoption. And I&amp;#039;m going to do a record. He gave me the force to make my own projects, in a way. What other directors would you like to work with?  I&amp;#039;m crazy about Paul Thomas Anderson, Pedro Almod\u00F3var, Nick Cassavetes, Martin Scorsese. And to make another movie with Tarantino would be great. When did you know you wanted to act?  I didn&amp;#039;t really want to act. G\u00E9rard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, &amp;quot;Why not?&amp;quot; Your father dubs the Ned Flanders character in the French version of The Simpsons, and your mother&amp;#039;s a dancer\u2014did they encourage you?  Since they&amp;#039;re artists too, it was easier for me because they understand everything. They support me a lot but don&amp;#039;t push me. I hear you&amp;#039;re recording an album with Damien Rice. How did that come about?  It&amp;#039;s a crazy story. I went to Woodstock a year and a half ago to record the album, and I was unhappy with what happened there. I called my manager and asked him to call Damien Rice&amp;#039;s manager and organize something. I didn&amp;#039;t expect him to come, but he did, and we started to work together. I fired everyone and followed him to Ireland. He taught me everything about being a musician. I was a huge, huge fan, so it was weird for me to just speak with him like it&amp;#039;s natural, when I was like, &amp;quot;Oh my God, I&amp;#039;m speaking with Damien Rice and we&amp;#039;re creating music together.&amp;quot; But he&amp;#039;s my dearest friend now.  You&amp;#039;re in an upcoming Mike Mills film with Ewan McGregor, called The Beginners. Tell me about your character.  She&amp;#039;s French and she&amp;#039;s a mess. She&amp;#039;s really complicated. She&amp;#039;s in love, but she&amp;#039;s afraid. She&amp;#039;s in love again, but she doesn&amp;#039;t know. She&amp;#039;s a girl! But it&amp;#039;s funny because I&amp;#039;m really not like this in my life.  You&amp;#039;re always very chic on the red carpet. Who are your favorite designers?  Balenciaga, Dior, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu. And I&amp;#039;m a shoe addict.  Tell me one thing that people would be surprised to know about you.  I&amp;#039;m a good cook. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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