Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley in Philippe Falardeau s My New York Year
Dir: Philippe Falardeau. Starring: Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas Booth, Colm Feore, Brian F O’Byrne. 15 cert, 101 mins
In 1995, Joanna Rakoff took a job as a 23-year-old intern at Harold Ober Associates, one of New York City’s oldest literary agencies. Taxed with handling JD Salinger’s large volume of fan mail, she had regular dealings with the notoriously reclusive novelist over the phone, and would write a 2014 memoir about her experiences. That book was called My Salinger Year; since premiering in Berlin last February, the poised film adaptation by Canadian director Philippe Falardeau has undergone a title change to the more generic, less bookish My New York Year.