For its final day of Principal Photography on location at Christie's Paris, Mary McGuckian’s ‘The Price of Desire’ production team re-enacted the infamous collection Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé sale of Eileen Gray’s “Dragon Chair”, which fetched over $28,000,000 under the Christie’s hammer at Le Grand Palais in February 2009 - the highest price ever paid for a piece of 20th century furniture.
‘The Price of Desire’ tells the controversial story of how Le Corbusier effaced and defaced Eileen Gray's moral right to be recognized as the
author of her work as well as one of the most forceful and influential inspirations of a century of modern architecture and design.
Irish actress Orla Brady plays the lead role of Eileen Gray opposite Swiss actor Vincent Perez as her nemesis, Le Corbusier. Canadian actress and singer Alanis Morissette and the emerging Italian actor Francesco Scianna play her lovers, the famous French singer, Marisa Damia and architectural critic Jean Badovici, respectively.
The film is a European co-production between EG Film Productions Limited of Ireland and Saga Film in Belgium, in association with Fabrica de Cine and Katie Heidy's US based Liberty Liquid Films and Rush River Entertainment. The film also has the support of The Irish Film Board, S481, BNP Paribas Fortis Film Fund with the support of the Media Production Guarantee Fund and Audiovisual Aval S.G.R.
Other Irish talent involved include costume designer Peter O’Brien, and composer Brian Byrne. Writer/director Mary McGuckian is currently in post-production with the film at Windmill Lane in Dublin.
