Gerard Depardieu to play Dominique Strauss-Kahn

According to Le Monde, a film about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal is in the works, with occasionally incontinent French legend Gérard Depardieu slated to play the disgraced former International Monetary Fund head. Isabelle Adjani will take on the role of Strauss-Kahn's wife, Anne Sinclair

For anyone out there with dementia or the memory-span of a goldfish, Strauss-Kahn was charged last May with sexually assaulting a maid in a New York hotel room. The legal manoeuvers that lead to those charges being dropped were about as dubious as Strauss-Kahn’s frequent identification as a “socialist”, but whatever.

Depardieu’s involvement might strike some as a little provocative, since a Time Magazine article in 1991 incorrectly stated that he participated in a rape when he was nine years old. There’s room for all kinds of playful ambiguity in the space between what Depardieu was accused of doing but didn’t, and what Strauss-Kahn apparently got away with.

On the other hand, perhaps director Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant, Driller Killer) will play it straight, although you gotta wonder what Ms. 45 would have done if she'd been in that hotel room.