Benicio Del Toro Is Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places

Posted Monday, March 19, 2001 at 5:59 PM Central

by John Couture

Benecio Del Toro and Juliette Binoche are bringing their Oscar power together in their next project. Del Toro and Binoche, who are both nominated for Oscars this year, are teaming up in the untitled forbidden love tale based on a real 15th century painter (who happens to be a monk) that falls in love with his latest nude subject (who happens to be a nun).

But the Oscar power doesn't stop there. Past Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush and nominee Chloe Sevigny are lending their talents in this star ladden tribute to one of history's most hedonistic painters. Talk about pushing the envelope...