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3rd Time a Charm for Haneke and Huppert

Michael Haneke is returning to the “aging” project he had begun scripting before The White Ribbon. French sources say that he’ll be re-teaming with Isabelle Huppert and has set Jean-Louis Trintignant in the lead role of a man dealing with the notion of a deteriorating, aging body but a youthful mind.

Eric Lavallée

Published on October 13, 2009

Michael Haneke is returning to the “aging” project he had begun scripting before The White Ribbon. French sources say that he’ll be re-teaming with Isabelle Huppert and has set Jean-Louis Trintignant in the lead role of a man dealing with the notion of a deteriorating, aging body but a youthful mind. The untitled project is said to contain a strong musical element and will be produced by Haneke’s long-time producer Veit Heiduschka. Filming is set for next year.

Trintignant is best known for Z (1969), My Night at Maud’s (1969), The Conformist (1970) and one of his last great bits in what would appear to be a defunct career in film with Three Colors: Red (1994). (Thanks to Fin De Cinema for the major casting update).

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Eric Lavallée

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 Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).