Nothing helps start out a budding relationship between producer and director like a nice festival prize – especially those coming from Cannes. Variety reports that French producer Sylvain Bursztejn (Summer Palace) is setting up Wang Chao’s next project. This time out the art-house director may actually receive some support from his homeland.
Winner of the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section with last year’s Luxury Car, the $2 million budget is coming from a combination of Chinese and European sources. It will be a co-production between Bursztejn's Rosem Films and Hangzhou-based Zhejiang Golden Globe Pictures. Golden Globe's Chen Jinhai will take producer credits alongside Bursztejn.
Scripted by Wang, Starting Over is set in Hangzhou, two hours' drive from Shanghai, “Starting Over” is a contempo love story about a cheating wife and her husband. Following a car crash, the wife suffers from amnesia forgetting the last several years of her life and the husband rushes to build their relationship again before she remembers her lover.
