Old school filmmaker André Téchiné (Wild Reeds) will have another one of his films released in the U.S. reports THR. Les Témoins will be released by Strand Releasing.
Starring Emmanuelle Béart and Michel Blanc, the film is set in Paris in 1984, revolves around a group of friends and lovers who confront the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.
Téchiné has a reputation of being a ladies man – the filmmaker casted Béart before in the “getaway” film Strayed (Les Égarés) and has worked with the likes of the Deneuves and Binoches of French cinema. The Witnesses was first shown at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival.
