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

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).