“Emily in Paris” star Camille Razat, Elsa Zylberstein (“Simone: Lady of the Century”) and Lyna Khoudri (“The Three Musketeers”) will lead a WW2-set romance drama directed by “Papicha” helmer Mounia Meddour.
The film is produced by Vanessa Djian at Daï Daï Movies, a Newen Studios firm, and co-produced by Genevieve Lemal at Scope in Belgium, and Bidibul in Luxembourg. Eric Jollant is govt producing. Wild Bunch Distribution will deal with the theatrical launch in France.
The untitled characteristic, whose precise plot stays underneath wrap, is loosely primarily based on a play by Jean-Philippe Daguerre and was penned by Joanne Diger (“Le milieu de l’horizon”). It revolves round a love story unfolding towards the backdrop of the liberation of Paris in 1944 which marked the tip of the Nazi occupation of the French capital.
Djian had beforehand labored on “Farewell, Mr. Haffmann,” one other film set throughout WW2, in Nazi-occupied Paris. A male actor will be a part of the forged at a latter stage and may have an essential position within the movie. Pablo Pauly can even star. Taking pictures will kick off in France on Could 26.
The challenge marks Djian’s first collaboration Meddour. The producer, who co-founded a sorority membership for girls within the business in Paris referred to as Women Helps Women, has been working with many proficient feminine filmmakers, notably Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre on her 2019 film “Nevada” starring Matthias Schoenaerts.
Meddour made her characteristic debut with “Papicha” which was set in Algeria and adopted rebellious younger girls who refuse to bow right down to fundamentalism. The film world premiered on the Cannes Movie Competition and went on to win Cesar Awards for greatest first movie and greatest promising actress for Khoudri, who additionally starred in Meddour’s observe up, “Houria.”
