[EXCLU] Jodie Foster, Virgin Efira, Daniel Auteuil… This is already the best casting of 2025 in the long-awaited French film!

Jodie Foster is making a French film! Recently awarded an Emmy Award for her role in Season 4 of True Detective (Outstanding Actress in a Mini-Series), the American actress recently began filming Private Life under the direction of Rebecca Zlotowski.

AlloCiné, in the preview, presents a very nice casting that will surround Jodie Foster: Daniel Ott, Virgin Efira, Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Lacoste and Luana Bajram will join the film. Jodie Foster will speak French in the film.

AlloCiné also exclusively presents the official synopsis of the film, which will take the form of a drama with a detective twist.

The story tells about Lillian Steiner, a famous psychiatrist. One day he learns about the death of one of his patients. Distraught, Lilian convinces herself it’s murder, so she decides to investigate… Original screenplay by Anne Berest and Rebecca Zlotowski, in collaboration with Gael Mackey.

Filming began on September 30 and will continue until November 22, between Paris and Normandy. The film is produced by Les Films Velvet and co-produced by France 3 Cinéma.

Jodie Foster, her beautiful story with French cinema

Perfectly bilingual, Jodie Foster has stated several times that she would like to work in a French film again. He expressed this desire several times, most notably when he received the honorary Palme d’Or in 2021 or during a visit to Paris to promote the TV series True Detective in early 2024.

This will not be the actor’s first time in a French film. She was notably seen in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s ‘Long Engagement Week’ in 2004. 20 years earlier, in 1984, he played one of the main roles in Claude Chabrol’s Blood of Others.

He also starred in French in Moi, fleur bleue by Éric Le Hung, with Jean Yanne and Bernard Giraudeau, released in 1977.

Jodie Foster won two Oscars and two Golden Globes, for The Accused in 1989 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1992. He also won a Golden Globe for his supporting role in Designated Guilty in 2021.

Rebecca Zlotowski’s 6th feature film

Private Life will be Rebecca Zlotowski’s 6th feature film. The filmmaker previously directed Children of Others, which was a huge critical and public success (over 400,000 admissions). Private Life marks the reunion of Rebecca Zlotowski and Virgin Efira.

Rebecca Zlotowski previously directed Beautiful Thorn (2010), Grand Central (2013), Planetarium (2016), Simple Girl (2019) and The Children of Others (2022). We also owe him the series The Savages for Canal+.

It is worth noting that Rebecca Zlotovsky is also working on a new serial project for the Amazon Prime Video platform. The series will be called Glamsquad. It tells the brilliant adventures of the Glam Squad: four young people, strong and lovely, immersed in a sexy and dangerous world where desire, friendship, personal ambitions and talents collide… they are a hairdresser, a stylist, a make-up artist and a manicurist. . Their mission is to enhance the beauty of stars.