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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #141. Victoria Musiedlak’s La vie sauvage

Published on January 10, 2023

La vie sauvage

With only a handful of shorts under her belt, for her directorial debut, French filmmaker Victoria Musiedlak landed the likes of Noée Abita, Anders Danielsen and François Morel. Production on La vie sauvage took place this past November in Paris and lasted until January 4th.

Gist: Nora, 26, is a graduate and still lives with her parents. While Nora has no field experience, she finds herself in charge of a 19-year-old boy, accused of having murdered a girl from his residence. From her first police custody to the follow-up of the instruction, Nora discovers the cruelty of the world around her, in her intimate and professional life. Soon, carried away by the frenzy of her new life, she multiplies the errors.

Release Date/Prediction: If this gets a release in ’23 it’ll need to be the autumn festival circuit namely Venice – perhaps Giornate degli Autori section.

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).