Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #64. Catherine Corsini’s Le retour

Le retour

Formerly titled “La Loi du plus fort”, Catherine Corsini began filming on Le retour back in September of last year. Set in Corsica, Virginie Ledoyen, Denis Podalydès, Aïssatou Diallo Sagna and Esther Gohourou are among the on-screen distribution here. Corsini last premiered hospital ER room as a trauma center and empathy and connection – in La fracture in Cannes back in ’21.

Gist: Written by Corsini and Naïla Guiguet, the story centres on 40-something Kheìdidja, who works for a wealthy Parisian family who offers her to take care of the children during a summer in Corsica – the occasion for her and her daughters, Jessica and Farah, to return to this island which they left 15 years ago in tragic circumstances.

Release Date/Prediction: This will be aiming for a shot at the Palme d’Or.