French helmers Pascale Ferran (Lady Chatterley), Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi (Actresses) and Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) are all currently in the financing stages of their next projects and figure among the group of six who’ve received coin aka “advance on receipts” from the committee of the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC).
Pascale Ferran will next direct a film going by the title of Bird People – which is co-scripted by the director and Le petit lieutenant scribe Guillaume Breaud. Archipel 35’s Denis Freyd (Lorna’s Silence) produces.
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi will next direct Un Château en Italie – Cineuropa mentions that it will “no doubt be inspired by the castle in Castagneto Po, which was bought in 1952 by the Bruni family and sold in 2009 to a Saudi prince.” Fidélité Films’ Marc Missonnier (Enter the Void) produces.
Lastly, Quentin Dupieux whose Rubber hits U.S theatres shortly, will be working on Reality which is being Realitism Films’ Gregory Bernard (who produced the tyre killer film) teams up again on a project which sounds like some warped version of The Ring. Cineuropa quotes the director who divulged the screenplay as so: “While her father, a taxidermist, guts a wild boar he has killed, his little girl, Reality, notices a video cassette in the animal’s belly. That evening, Reality retrieves the video from the bin. She wonders whether she should watch it. What’s on the tape? What’s in her imagination?”.
