Cannes 2011? New Projects From Mia Hansen-Love, Raymond Depardon and Pierre Schoeller

If you don’t know the names mentioned in the headline above then its perhaps time to familiarize yourself with French cinema. Actually, I’m fairly sure all three filmmakers showed their last films at the Cannes Film Festival either a year or two years back. In the case of Mia Hansen-Love, who was recently named one of Variety’s Top 10 filmmakers, her Father of My Children is one of those effortless French dramas that takes a series of snap shots of your typical family in a moment of reflection. IFC Films picked up the film and will release it shortly.

The National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC) has selected six screenplays to receive some coin – among them we find Raymond Depardon’s doc Journal de France which he will film with Claudine Nougaret, Pierre Schoeller who directed Guillaume Depardieu in one of his last performances in Versailles and will be directing L’Exercice de l’Etat (State Exercise) next and finally going back to Hansen-Love, she’ll be directing A Youthful Love this summer for producer David Thion.