After The Three Musketeers, this great international actor will be a surprise movie hero

Actress Vicky Cripps, currently starring in The World’s End and recently seen in The Three Musketeers Diptych, is embarking on a surprise new project. According to our information, he will soon become the hero of the film adaptation of the novel Love Me Tender, published by Flammarion in 2020 (Prix Les Inrockuptibles).

The story, written by Constance Debre, received very positive critical acclaim in France and is now enjoying a second life internationally, laden with success, particularly in the United States.

Anna Cazenave Cambe was commissioned to write and stage this above-mentioned book. The director directed the feature film Gold for Dogs, which was selected for the 2020 Critics’ Week in Cannes, and his short film Gabber Lover, which was selected for Cinéfondation and awarded the Queer Palm in 2016.

The book she’s adapting has very direct writing and a very direct story of this mother who lets go of her past and discovers her homosexuality in her 40s. The story talks about the price you have to pay to finally experience this freedom. He has affairs with women while struggling to continue seeing his son, for whom he has lost custody. She lives with her father, played by Antoine Reinartz (Fall Anatomy, School Life).

The cast around Vicky Cripps also includes Park Ji-min (Return to Seoul) and Salif Sissy (On Board, My Mother’s Life) in particular.

Filming is scheduled to begin in September 2024 over 40 days in Paris and a small portion in the Southwest. Produced by Novoprod Cinéma, in particular with A plein temps producer Laure Calam, the film received support from the Nouvelle Aquitaine region, France 2 and Canal+. Tandem will distribute the film.

The director contacted us Anna Cazenave Cambet He says he is honored that Constance Debrey has given him the confidence to adapt his book. “I felt immense freedom– he tells us. And he adds about the author’s style:There’s something about his rhythm that came into the scriptThe rest of the film director prefers to keep the form of the adaptation as a surprise.

This will be the first film adaptation of Constance Debre’s book. Note that another of his novels has recently been adapted for boards, in this case namewhich was performed at the Théâtre du Rond Point in Paris last April.

We remind you that Vicky Cripps, who is currently starring in Viggo Mortensen’s film “The End of the World”, will soon serve on the Un Certain Regard jury at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.