The Embrace
Director: Ludovic Bergery
Writer: Ludovic Bergery
Producers: Les Films Pelleas
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Isabelle Huppert
Heretofore known as a character actor, Ludovic Bergery has written and will direct a strange sounding feature starring none other than Isabelle Huppert in role that sounds tailor made for her. While it’s currently seeking a German co-producer and actor, this is set to film in summer of 2014, and we can’t wait to hear more about it.
Gist: The screenplay focuses on a woman who lost her husband two years ago. After a disappointing relationship, she starts having one night encounters that lack emotion before slowly giving in to an insatiable sexual desire that will expose her to all kinds of dangers and a violence through which her rebirth will however eventually take place.
Release Date: Headlining Huppert, we’re thinking this will bow in a Cannes sidebar, perhaps Directors’ Fortnight. Next: Our number 4 pick…
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