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Washington, July 19 : Scott Steindorff's production company Stone Village Pictures is all set make a film based on Federico Andahazi's controversial comic novel on the true story of the 16th century surgeon who discovered the clitoris, The Anatomist.
Writer-director Gabriela Tagliavini is the key person behind the film adaptation of the novel.
"It's a story that continues to be a mystery to many men," Hollywood reporter quoted Tagliavini, who directed the 2003 Spanish-language hit comedy "Ladies' Night", as joking.
The tome caused controversy in the author's native Argentina but won the prestigious Fortabat Foundation award in 1997 for best first novel by an Argentine. However, sponsor Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat rescinded the award when she came to know about the subject matter.
The book tells the fictionalised life story of Mateo Colombo, an "anatomist" whose desire for a high-priced Italian courtesan sets him to search for the physical source of love. During his research, Colombo escapes execution during the Spanish Inquisition, cures the pope, pens a controversial book, and creates a "treatment" that causes women to fall for him.
"I've been dying to make a movie in the vein of 'Life Is Beautiful' or 'Chocolat'," said Steindorff, who is prepping his adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book "Love in the Time of Cholera" for its New Line Cinema release Nov. 16.
"This is one of the finest scripts I've ever read. It's incredibly provocative but done very tastefully and explores the complex relationship between sex and love," he added.
Tagliavini, who brought the project to Steindorff, spent eight months writing the adaptation after securing the rights a year ago.
"It's a funny but political story. It's about men, women, our differences and how we sometimes confuse love and sex," she said.
A two-month shooting on the 15 million dollar production is expected to begin in October in Italy.
ANI
