Puissant Paris: Huppert, Efira, Cassel, Niney & Adam Bessa Topline Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’

Megawatt quintet Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa (plus a bonus appearance by Catherine Deneuve) will populate Asghar Farhadi‘s “Parallel Tales,” — which sees the Iranian filmmaker return to Paris — the lieu of where he shot 2013’s “The Past.” Variety reports that filming on his tenth film will take place in the fall with the hopes of bringing this to Cannes in 2026. We don’t have a logline yet, but this should be full of mental gymnastics like his previous work. Look for this to be a top sales project (Charades and UTA Independent Film Group) on the Croisette next month.

Among the producers we find Memento Production’s Alexandre Mallet-Guy with Asghar Farhadi and David Levine. Lucky Red’s Andrea Occhipinti, Panache Productions’ André Logie, La Compagnie Cinématographique’s Gaëtan David are also onboard. Executive producers include Carole Baraton, Yohann Comte, Pierre Mazars, Yousra Filali, Stefano Massenzi, Chadwick Prichard, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Maciej Musial and Lila Yacoub.