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Even tantalizing glimpses of 20th-century Anglo-Irish modernist Eileen Gray’s most iconic designs, including scenes shot in the seminal E-1027, a seaside villa she built for her former lover Jean Badovici on France’s Côte d’Azur, fail to compensate for the rest of the treacle comprising “The Price of Desire.” Essentially a recounting of how envious Swiss architect Le Corbusier effectively undermined Gray’s artistry and for many years obscured her place in the design pantheon, this tedious 2014 production from Irish multi-hyphenate Mary McGuckian (“Man on the Train”) receives a belated digital and on-demand release via Giant Pictures on June 2.

Gray’s remarkable life, talent and legacy receives more inspiring treatment in “Gray Matters,” a companion documentary helmed at the same time by Marco Antonio Orsini, available on iTunes.

“It’s the price of desire,” quips the collector queried about the unprecedented $28 million she pays for Gray’s sensual...

Exclusive: Principal photography has begun on Pembridge Pictures and Umedia’s A Girl From Mogadishu starring How To Get Away With Murder‘s Aja Naomi King. The female empowerment film is a true story based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed, who — having escaped war-torn Somalia — emerged as one of the world's foremost international activists against gender based violence. Mary McGuckian (The Price Of Desire) is directing and wrote the script. Filming is underway in Belgium…...

Other recipients include Virginia Woolf romance Vita & Virginia and new Hong Khaou, Carmel Winters films.

Lenny Abrahamson’s forthcoming adaptation of Sarah Waters’ acclaimed wartime ghost story The Little Stranger is among the films being supported by the Irish Film Board in its latest round of funding decisions.

Projects by Mary McGuckian, Carmel Winters and British/Cambodian filmmaker Hong Khaou are also among those given production funding support, as is a drama about Virgina Woolf’s love affair with the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West.

In a diverse and wide-ranging first quarter, Room director Abrahamson’s [pictured] adaption of The Little Stranger has received production funding of €350,000.

The novel, which centres on the strange goings on in a country house in rural Warwickshire, has been adapted for the big screen by English novelist and screenwriter Lucinda Coxon (The Danish Girl). Domhnall Gleeson is attached to the project, which will be co-produced by Element Pictures.

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Exclusive: Northern Soul sub-distributor boards drama following the true story of Irish artist Eileen Gray.

Distribution outfit Munro Films - the company which sub-distributed Northern Soul and Cobain: Montage Of Heck - has taken rights to Mary McGuckian’s biographical drama The Price Of Desire for the UK and Ireland.

The films tells the story of how Irish artist and designer Eileen Gray was virtually erased from history due to an ongoing conflict with revered architect Le Corbusier.

Orla Brady (A Love Divided) plays Gray, while Vincent Perez (Cyrano De Bergerac) plays Le Corbusier, with musician Alanis Morissette also amongst the cast.

Director McGuckian also wrote the film’s screenplay and produced, along with Jean-Jacques Neira and Hubert Toint.

The project was an English-Belgian co-production, shot on location in Belgium and the south of France in a villa designed by Gray. Eg Film Productions were the primary production outfit.

The Little Film Company is handling sales on the...

Exclusive: Northern Soul sub-distributor boards drama following the true story of Irish artist Eileen Gray.

Distribution outfit Munro Films - the company which sub-distributed Northern Soul and Cobain: Montage Of Heck - has taken rights to Mary McGuckian’s biographical drama The Price Of Desire for the UK and Ireland.

The films tells the story of how Irish artist and designer Eileen Gray was virtually erased from history due to an ongoing conflict with revered architect Le Corbusier.

Orla Brady (A Love Divided) plays Gray [pictured], while Vincent Perez (Cyrano De Bergerac) plays Le Corbusier, with musician Alanis Morissette also amongst the cast.

Director McGuckian also wrote the film’s screenplay and produced, along with Jean-Jacques Neira and Hubert Toint.

The project was an English-Belgian co-production, shot on location in Belgium and the south of France in a villa designed by Gray. Eg Film Productions were the primary production outfit.

The Little Film Company is handling sales on the...

Exclusive: Principal photography has wrapped on Mary McGuckian’s The Price Of Desire, about modernist designer Eileen Gray.

On the final day of the shoot the production staged a reenactment of the February 2009 record-breaking $28m Paris sale at Christie’s of Gray’s Dragon Chair.

The reenactment will be the opening scene and recreates what remains the highest price paid for an item of 20th century design.

Cheska Vallois of Galerie Vallois, who bid for the anonymous private client who bought the chair, plays herself in the production and famously explained the high price-tag to reporters immediately after the auction by saying “it can only be the price of desire.”

The Price Of Desire focuses on how rival modernist Le Corbusier questioned Gray’s reputation as one of the most powerful influences on modern architecture and design.

Orla Brady plays the lead role of Gray opposite Vincent Perez as Le Corbusier. Alanis Morissette and [link...