Flagstaff Cinema Series: Weaver, Qualley star in a film in which the author discovers the voice films



An aspiring, big-eyed writer (Margaret Qualley) gets a dream job as assistant to a legendary Old World literary agent (Sigourney Weaver) who represents JD Salinger in “My Salinger Year,” directed by Philippe Falardeau.



An aspiring, big-eyed writer (Margaret Qualley) gets a dream job as assistant to a legendary Old World literary agent (Sigourney Weaver) who represents JD Salinger in “My Salinger Year,” directed by Philippe Falardeau.



A big-eyed aspiring writer (Margaret Qualley, not shown) gets a dream job as assistant to a legendary old world literary agent (Sigourney Weaver) who replaces JD Salinger on “My Salinger Year,” directed by Philippe Falardeau.

DAILY SUN STAFF

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Flagstaff premiere of its acclaimed new drama “My Salinger Year” on Wednesday as part of the festival’s monthly Flagstaff Cinema Series. The film will be shown at 7pm at the Harkins Flagstaff 16 theaters.

An aspiring, big-eyed writer (Margaret Qualley) gets a dream job as assistant to the legendary literary agent of the old world (Sigourney Weaver) who represents JD Salinger in “My Salinger Year,” directed by Philippe Falardeau.

New York in the ’90s: After Joanna left graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, she is hired as an assistant to Margaret, JD Salinger’s stoic and old-fashioned literary agent.

She vacillates between poverty and glamor and spends her days in a soft, wood-paneled office where dictation machines and typewriters still rule and agents fall asleep after three martini lunches.

Joanna’s main job is to handle Salinger’s extensive fan mail, but as she reads the heartbreaking letters from around the world, she hesitates to send the agency’s standard impersonal letter and impulsively begins to personalize the responses. The results are both humorous and moving as Joanna, using the great writer’s voice, begins to discover her own.

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