24 years old and already 1 Cesar: This actor is unrecognizable in this photo of the highly anticipated movie 2024

After Le Consentement and its more than 600,000 admissions recorded in France, can this film get people talking, especially young people? This feature film, the first photo of which has just been released, is simply called Maria. Maria as a woman she is inspired by: actress Maria Schneider.

free and wild

1969. Maria is free and wild. Breathtakingly beautiful. He is no longer a child, not yet an adult, when he ignites a closed session of sex and violence for a film by a young and promising Italian director with an American star. He becomes famous. He was not prepared for anything, neither fame nor scandal…

This is an adaptation of the story Your Name Was Maria Schneider. This book, published in 2018 by Grasset, is by Vanessa Schneider, who is a senior reporter at Le Monde, a novelist, and is none other than the cousin of the actor featured in Le Dernier tango à Paris by Bernardo Bertolucci ( trailer above. ), a shocking role that he held, despite himself.

Discover Maria Schneider

The book was not a sulphurous history of the actor’s life and suffering career, but a tribute to this cousin and this actor whose life should not be reduced to film, role and sometimes even stage. “I often think you don’t like to say that, Maria. You didn’t want me to talk about your mother, your father, drugs, your brothers. That’s why I’ll delete what I wrote. Then I start again. Because to talk about yourself without talking about mom, dad, drugs, or tango is to stop talking about yourself.”

Your name was Maria Schneider, through the prism of intimacy and the personal history of its author, invites us to discover Maria Schneider, with her dark sides, her suffering, but also to remember that she was not a woman of one shocking scene, but an actress who will remain marked by film for the rest of her life, rested “I always relate to that. Everywhere I go I have Tango with me, Basta!“.

By discussing this topic, this testimony ties into the #MeToo theme we talked about here on the podcast:

Announcing the event

Maria Schneider will be played by Annamaria Bartholomew (the lead in The Audrey Divan Incident), who is unrecognizable in this first photo. Matt Dillon will play the role of Marlon Brando. The cast also includes Ivan Attal and Marie Guillen.

It is directed by Jessica Palud. This is his second feature film, after Revenir, with Adele Exarchopoulos and Niels Schneider, which was released in early 2020. The release date of the film is not yet known. It is due for release in 2024 and will likely be selected for a prestigious spring or pre-school festival.