Sisterly Love: Vanessa Filho Builds Mistrust with Nina Hoss & Vanessa Paradis in Gender-Bending Thriller “Trespassers”

She has just wrapped her sophomore project Le Consentement this past June and Vanessa Filho has already set her gaze on an intriguing-sounding fact-based story about a tandem of truly unique artists who were part of the resistance against the Nazi occupation. Screen Daily reports that Nina Hoss and Vanessa Paradis will be toplining the English-language period thriller Trespassers. We imagine there’ll be touches of French and German tossed in for a bit more authenticity. Production is set for the spring of 2023 in Jersey and France. The UK producers Evangelo Kioussis and Giles Foreman, and French producers are Gaël Cabouat and Boris Mendza are mounting the project.

Based on a screenplay by newbie scribe Jonathan Socrates, this tells the true story of Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe – two surrealist artists, who worked under the pseudonyms Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. The women were stepsisters and lovers, and launched the campaign of resistance against the Nazi occupation of the island of Jersey – a self-governing dependency of the British crown – during the Second World War.