MY SALINGER YEAR

Synopsis: New York in the 90s: After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna get hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J.D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-panelled office - where dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze after three-martini lunches - and her nights in a sink-less Brooklyn apartment with her socialist boyfriend.

Joanna’s main task is processing Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency’s impersonal standard letter and impulsively begins personalizing the responses. The results are both humorous and moving, as Joanna, while using the great writer’s voice, begins to discover her own.

Cast: Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver.

2020 / Drama, Comedy / Canada, Ireland / 101 min / English / Completed

Produced by Microscope - Luc Dery & Kim McCraw (Enemy, Incendies, Monsieur Lazhar), Parallel Films (Brooklyn, Mary Shelley).

By the director of Monsieur Lazhar (Academy Award® Nominated for Best Foreign Film) / By the producers of Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy and Incendies, Monsieur Lazhar / Based on the best-selling novel by Joanna Rakoff / US release by IFC.