Cotillard, Cluzet and Magimel board Guillaume Canet’s Les Petits Mouchoirs

Guillaume Canet can count on the return of François Cluzet, the participation of an Oscar winning actress in Marion Cotillard, and Benoît Magimel for his third feature in the director’s chair. Canet will follow up Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne) with with Les Petits Mouchoirs (“The Little Handkerchiefs”). Cineuropa reports that Valérie Bonneton, Gilles Lellouche, Anne Marivin, Louise Monot, Laurent Lafite, Pascale Arbillot and Jean Dujardin (OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies) round out the cast. Production will last three months in Gironde, Cap Ferret and Paris.

Written by the Canet, Les Petits Mouchoirs centres on a group of friends who holiday together every summer at Cap Ferret (South West portion of France). The good spirits of the first few days give way to less exalted feelings when they each express their innermost doubts. Productions du Trésor’s Alain Attal (who also produced Ne le dis à personne) produces. Tell No One was a breakout hit for Music Box Films – they made a big chunk of change stateside with an almost unheard of eight month theatrical run. Will they be looking to get onto this picture early? It would be a first for the company based in Chicago. 

This would be the first time that Canet directs Cotillard – with whom he acted with and shared stellar big screen chemistry on Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d’enfants), and they were reunited on Karim Dridi’s The Last Flight.