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Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #30. Serge Bozon’s Don Juan

Published on January 13, 2022

Don Juan

In 2013’s Tip Top and 2017’s Mrs. Hyde we’ve come to fully appreciate his brand of cinema and with his fifth project we’re not necessarily expecting acerbic in what is being labeled as a musical comedy but we’re likely going to be challenged. Working at a pace of one project about every four or five years, Serge Bozon nabbed Virginie Efira and Tahir Rahim for Don Juan – a project he once again co-wrote with filmmaker Axelle Ropert. Production took place in May of 2021, Les Films Pelléas’ David Thion is producing.

Gist: Rahim stars as Laurent, a stage actor who gets jilted on his wedding day and embarks on a quest to seduce every woman he meets in order to mend his broken heart and ego. But none of them are lured by his elaborate charming performances, including musical ones. Meanwhile, over at the theater, Laurent plays the part of Don Juan, and is forced to star opposite his ex-fiancée (Efira) after she’s hired by the production to replace the departing leading actress.

Release Date/Prediction: Cannes Film Festival feels like a sure bet and a Palme d’Or slot is not impossible either.

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).