Elise Girard Sidonie au Japon Isabelle Huppert

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Ghost Writers: Production Begins on Elise Girard’s “Sidonie au Japon” with Isabelle Huppert

Published on July 5, 2022

The continuously busy Isabelle Huppert has booked her next flight. She’ll be heading to Sidonie au Japon — French filmmaker Élise Girard‘s third feature project. Production kicks off next month and we’ve learned that August Diehl and Tsuyoshi Ihara will complete the trio. This Japan, France, Germany and Switzerland co-production was in the final finances stages (Tokyo Gap Financing Market) in 2021.

In her first trip to Japan, Sidonie Perceval (Huppert) is an author on a promotional tour who sees the ghost of her husband (Diehl) while she lives a love affair with Kenzo Mizoguchi (Ihara), her publisher, a mysterious man.

Girard’s previous pair include 2010’s Belleville-Tokyo (starring Valérie Donzelli) and 2017’s Strange Birds (Huppert’s daughter Lolita Chammah toplines).

Related Topics:August Diehl, Cinema of France, Elise Girard, French Cinema, Isabelle Huppert, Sidonie au Japon, top-stories, Tsuyoshi Ihara

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).