We have the first details on the next feature films from a pair of French auteurs who arguably are both coming off what might be their career bests. Xavier Giannoli (2021’s Lost Illusions) and Rebecca Zlotowski (2022’s Other People’s Children) will likely be moving into film productions as early as this year with the Cineuropa folks reporting that their latest features have received CNC advance coin. Giannoli’s next feature Jean et Corinne Luchaire (produced by Curiosa Films) is based on real-life events and revolves around a father and daughter who collaborated with the Germans in the Second World War: the journalist and press baron Jean Luchaire, who fled Sigmaringen upon France’s liberation and was later sentenced to death and executed in 1946, and his daughter Corinne, who was an up-and-coming actress between 1935 and 1940 before she was forced to halt her career for health reasons, who was briefly married to a German officer, who fled alongside her father having now become his secretary, and who was sentenced to ten years’ national indignity. Zlotowski’s Vie privée doesn’t have a synopsis yet, but it could be the erotic thriller that she was penning. Les Films Velvet will produce this sixth feature film. Also worth mentioning here is Chinese filmmaker Hu Wei – he had his shorts feted at Sundance and Cannes Critics’ Week and is now working on his feature debut: 49 jours. Les Films du Worso’s Sylvie Pialat will produce. Here are the seven projects to receive support:
Jean et Corinne Luchaire – Xavier Giannoli
Vie privée – Rebecca Zlotowski
Réparation(s) – Jacques Maillot (doc)
49 jours – Hu Wei
La petite cavale – Julien Bisaro (animation)
Trois contes cruels – Sylvie Meyer (doc)
Le cordon – Nolwenn Hervé (doc)
