Yann Samuell has come full circle and he is only three feature films into his filmmaking career. Samuell’s first film, Love Me If You Dare trickled into several markets including the U.S. and made a name for the director. Starring Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard, LMIYD featured love coming late in life in a flash-back mode going back and forth between adulthood and childhood with the two characters. Seems like his next directing gig will visit similar themes of regret.
Samuell is set to start filming L’âge de Raison (“The Age of Reason”) next month with Sophie Marceau toplining the fantasy comedy. Also starring players Jonathan Zaccaï, Marton Csokas and Michel Duchaussoy, this centres on Margaret (Marceau), a career girl who on her 40th birthday, receives the visit from a provincial solicitor who sends her some old, forgotten letters she wrote to herself when she was seven, the age of reason. Re-reading them one by one, she plunges back into hidden memories that upset all her certainties and cast doubt on her life choices. For she has become the opposite of what she hoped as a child.
Cineuropa reports that the September shoot taking place in the Rhône region is produced by Nord-Ouest Films’s Christophe Rossignon and co-produced by Belgium’s Artémis Productions, France 2 Cinéma and Rhône-Alpes Cinéma.
Anyone see Samuell’s first film? Let me know if you think lightning will strike twice for him.
