It was Barry Norman who first coined the verb "to rample" (def: "an ability to reduce a man to helplessness though a chilly sensuality"). Now, here's your chance to have your own words virtually rampled: Charlotte Rampling is in town this week to promote I, Anna, a new noir thriller told from the point of view of Rampling's femme fatale, who falls for the detective (Gabriel Byrne) in charge of a murder case. The film – the directorial debut of Rampling's son, Barnaby Southcombe – boasts a sterling cast including Eddie Marsan, Honor Blackman and Hayley Atwell. The film opens in the UK on 7 December and you can watch a trailer for it here.
Perhaps you'd like to quiz Rampling on her immaculate back catalogue, from her two early movies with Dirk Bogarde (Visconti's The Damned, in which she played a young wife sent to a Nazi concentration camp; and Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter, featuring Rampling as a former camp inmate in a sadomasochistic relationship with her ex-guard) through to her acclaimed collaborations with François Ozon (Under the Sand and Swimming Pool). Or maybe you're eager to talk monkeys, and discuss Max, Mon Amour, starring Rampling as a diplomat's wife besotted with a chimp, or her role as Woody Allen's dream woman in Stardust Memories, or her part as Lars von Trier's ferocious matriarch in Melancholia. Or, alternatively, you could just ask her about that cameo in StreetDance 3D …
