Hoffman in new film
2006-10-18 11:30
Paris - Film stars Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson on Tuesday presented a new film in which a man discovers that his life is part of a novel somebody else is writing.
Stranger than Fiction, directed by Marc Forster and starring Hoffman, Thompson and Will Ferrell, is "beautifully simple and very moving", said Thompson, who is the voice of the mysterious writer.
Hoffman is a literature professor who is consulted by the tormented Harold Crick, played by Will Ferrell, to help him make sense of the story he hears in his head, and which is also his life.
"We all live our life, this imperfect thing that we go through called our life. And we also have this writer inside of us that is trying to live the life that we should be living, that we want to live," said Hoffman at a presentation of the film in Paris.
"And they are two separate things. And I think that when you are trying to do artistic work, it's the only revenge that you have against the life that you would like to live and you cannot live."
Marc Forster has previously made Monsters' Ball and Finding Neverland.