Girlhood Uninterrupted: Corsini Begins Pre-production on “Le retour”

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After performing a full on physical and medical examination of the societal woes in her native France by way of a hospital emergency room in the Cannes comp La facture, Catherine Corsini will make a journey towards the south and explore teen female perspectives from a pair of in Le retour. It was announced that the project received some coin and is getting ready for a September shoot in Corsica.

Co-written alongside Naïla Guiguet (who participated on Louis Garrel’s last two outings as a director and co-wrote Thomas Salvador’s full on frottage of a mountain side in the Directors’ Fortnight winning La montagne), this will be a fourth time forn Corsini under the Chaz Productions label – which produced among others – La belle saison (read review). Production begins in September until mid November with a Cannes Film Festival berth as a possibility.

We don’t have any official synopsis, but Le retour will likely focus on two strong-minded and strong-willed teenage girls with Senegalese/European roots exploring issues of identity, class and sexuality. We could possibly have some fresh new acting talents — we imagine there’ll be more info to come prior to production.

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury 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 was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

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