decided to make a film in France, with a French star in French language,’ explains Catalan director Albert Serra (), talking up his new film Padfiction. But while he secured Benoît Magimel () to play his lead, he was adamant that he didn't want to set his politically tinged story in Paris. ‘I got bored,’ he grins. And so he chose Tahiti, casting Magimel as De Roller, the Polynesian island's French Fligh Commissioner, who lopes around in a white summer suit, beach shirt and orange espadrilles.
