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All Le Mans on Deck: Mélanie Laurent Revs Up “La grande odalisque”

Published on August 10, 2022

With a half dozen feature films under her belt in just under a decade, Mélanie Laurent will be moving into the fast lane with her next project. As usual, we only have breadcrumb details to work with, but the actress-turned filmmaker is set to move into her seventh feature film next month with one portion of the film being shot on the famed Le Mans circuit.

Titled La grande odalisque and written by Chris Deslandes (with whom Laurent has worked with on The Adopted (2011), Diving (2017) and The Mad Women’s Ball (2021), this is a Gaumont project. We haven’t had any updates on The Nightingale since it was paused, but we imagine this new project is an in-between outing. Look for casting news to be announced possibly during Venice and Toronto.

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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 1976 (Manuela Martelli), Godland (Hlynur Pálmason), Corsage (Marie Kreutzer), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen).