After the Mektoub, My Love controversy, Abdellatif Kechiche will work on the series

In 2019, Abdellatif Kechiche, one of the most controversial directors and screenwriters of his generation, caused controversy during the screening of Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo at the Cannes Film Festival.

Six years after winning the Palme d’Or for “La Vie d’Adèle,” the filmmaker made a surprising return to the Croisette and didn’t hesitate to wow festival audiences with this sultry film, which remains unreleased in theaters today.

Three years later, in 2022, Abdellatif Kechiche spoke for the first time after this controversy at a master class organized by the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival. A very lively event in which he explained how he worked on editing Canto Due and Canto Tre, Mektoub, the other two parts of my love (besides the intermezzo).

But after a four-year absence, Abdellatif Kechiche is preparing for his big return to the limelight. According to Satellifacts, which is reported Les InrocksThe filmmaker is currently working on a series project with Jacques Vanish, with whom he already worked on L’Esquive in 2003.

This is the only information that our colleagues have released so far. But there is a chance that this TV series will be connected to the filming of the project, which took place in Sete this summer. Regional newspaper Midi Libre revealed last April that Abdellatif Kechiche had returned to the Languedoc peninsula to film a secret project. A place he is particularly fond of, having already filmed The Seed and the Mule and two parts of Mektoub.

This serial project, had it seen the light of day, would have been the director’s first foray into the small screen. As of now, no broadcast channel or streaming platform is attached to this series. To be continued…