MY SALINGER YEAR (16SL)

Directed: Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar).
Starring: Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas Booth.

Opening Night Film Berlin Film Festival.

Based on the novel by Joanna Smith Rakoff, a young aspiring writer takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive author J.D. Salinger (Catcher in the Rye). While her eccentric and old-fashioned boss tasks her to process Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, she struggles to find her own voice.