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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #135. Léa Todorov’s Maria Montessori

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #135. Léa Todorov’s Maria Montessori

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Maria Montessori

Formerly going by the title of “Montessori” and “La Nouvelle Femme,” Léa Todorov moved into production on her feature debut this past April in Rome, Italy. Maria Montessori features Jasmine Trinca and Leïla Bekhti in a tale set in 1900 — a Parisian darling at the height of her fame must flee Paris in order to hide her daughter. Once in Rome, her life is turned upside down by a meeting with Maria Montessori, a woman doctor who has developed a method for teaching children with learning difficulties. Cinematographer Sébastien Goepfert teamed with Todorov. This was produced by Geko Films’ Grégoire Debailly (Shéhérazade).

Gist: Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy (Leila Bekhti) a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter.

Release Date/Prediction: We think this might be a contender for Locarno.
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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).

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