Annual Top Films Lists

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #81. Katell Quillévéré’s Le temps d’aimer

Published on January 7, 2022

Le temps d’aimer

Having just completed the television docu project Le monde de demain, it would appear that Katell Quillévéré is currently on location and in the research phase for what could be her biggest project to date. Slated for a spring shoot, her fourth feature Le temps d’aimer landed the likes of Anaïs Demoustier and Vincent Lacoste – both would be tending bar in a WWII project set in ’47. Workhorse scribe Gilles Taurand (he co-penned Quillévéré’s third feature in 2016’s Heal the Living) co-wrote the project which is backed by production companies such as Les Films du Bélier, Les Films Pelléas and Frakas Productions. Quillévéré’s first pair of films played on the Croisette in Cannes – 2010’s Love Like Poison and 2013’s Suzanne.

Gist: Inspired by the story of Quillévéré’s own grandmother, who had a brief love affair with a German officer during WWII which she kept secret all her life. The movie spans 20 years in the life of this woman and revolves around her relationship with her husband and son.

Release Date/Prediction: The Venice Film Festival would be the only option left on the table if this is somehow readied for the Fall.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).