Nathalie Baye To Mother Garrel in Dolan’s Laurence Anways

After two back to back splashes in Cannes, the French from France have taken a particular interest in French Canada’s export Xavier Dolan. The young filmmaker is in the financing stages of his next project, a Canada-France co-production that would only allow the filmmaker to make a cameo appearance as the lead has been locked up by Louis Garrel, and now helping out with the funding, the name of Nathalie Baye has been added to the cast. Baye will take on the role of the mother in Laurence Anways.

The film will serve as a re-introduction of the Baye and Garrel families: Garrel starred with Baye’s actress daughter, Laura Smet in Philippe Garrel’s La Frontière de l’aube. Now Garrel and Smet will have the chance to discuss Baye’s mothering skills. This tells the story of a man (Garrel) who loves a woman and what happens to the relationship when he decides he wants to become a she. The object of affection may either be Karine Vanasse (Denis Villeneuve’s Polytechnique) or Les Amours imaginaires‘ Monia Chokri. Here’s Baye in Josiane Balasko’s Cliente.