Actor-director Daniel Auteuil and key “Emilia Perez” collaborator Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux have arrange their subsequent options with Les Films Velvet, the auteur-focused manufacturing outfit behind this yr’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris opener “The Musicians” in addition to Rebecca Zlotowski’s upcoming, Jodie Foster-led thriller “Vie Privée.”
After final yr’s Cannes-launched authorized thriller “An Bizarre Case,” Auteuil will step again behind the digicam for the World Conflict II drama “Une Nuit” (“One Evening”). Co-written by Auteuil and filmmaker Camille Lugan (“The E book of Pleasure”), the movie follows the unbelievable true story of a 1942 effort to rescue extra then 100 Jewish kids from a deportation camp simply outdoors of Lyon. Les Movies Velvet’s Frederic Jouve will produce alongside Adrien Nussenbaum.
An in-demand assistant director who has labored intently with Jacques Audiard, Zlotowski and Nadav Lapid, Pouilloux most not too long ago led second unit on “Emilia Perez” earlier than directing the Canal Plus collection “Iris.” The filmmaker will make his characteristic debut with “Merci Maman” (“Thanks Mother”), an irreverent comedy, written by Pouilloux, a couple of mom who drags her son to couple’s remedy. The challenge is presently casting, with manufacturing slated for later this yr.
Velvet can also be gearing as much as shoot comic Charlotte Gabris’ directorial debut “Au Frais.” Co-produced with Marine Alaric of Orta Movies, the comedian characteristic follows a 38-year-old girl dumped by her boyfriend after which despatched by her fearful household to freeze her eggs in Barcelona.
Additional down the road, Velvet is creating new options from Thierry de Peretti (“In His Personal Picture”), Guillaume Renusson (“White Paradise”) and Farid Bentoumi (“Pink Soil”), in addition to the Amazon collection “Glam Squad,” created by Zlotowski and Olivier Nicklaus.
That just about all of the aforementioned filmmakers have labored with Les Movies Velvet earlier than is some extent of delight for Jouve, who believes above all in “nurturing” his secure of auteurs.
“It’s elementary to suppose long-term,” Jouve tells Selection. “Careers are constructed over a number of movies, so I’m much less concerned with making a one-off hit and extra centered on creating filmmakers, pondering long-term, and rising collectively. Rebecca Zlotowski is an ideal instance. We’ve made six movies collectively — all the way in which from her very first — and we’re already engaged on extra.”
