Belle Boy

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers has joined the cast of the French romantic drama Belle du Seigneur reports Deadline.

Based on Albert Cohen’s bestselling novel, Meyers will play a Jewish diplomat who gets into a passionate affair with a married Swiss woman (Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova) on the eve of World War II.

Marianne Faithfull co stars

Glenio Bonder makes his directing debut.

James Dearden (Fatal Attraction) and Vincenzo Cerami (Life Is Beautiful) wrote the script

Thierry de Navacelle, Jimmy de Brabant and Jean Luc Van Damme will produce