French cinema is more like literary adaptation than ever! After Monte Cristo, some feature films adapted from novels and great classics will grow on screens, namely two adaptations.
Its author Victor Hugo has more than ever wind in Stern, as we are learning from Total Ecran columns and French film that the novelist’s feature film Tribute has just been shot!
Hugo is his title, will be a dramatic comedy, a tribute to Victor Hugo, which Fabri Lucin bears. It will be surrounded by Chiara Mastrianni, Marie Narbonne, Suzanne de Baecque, Louise Orry-Diquero and Iris Bry.
Hugo follows the story of Robert Zuchin, a lover of Hugo’s words. He goes to the Parisian theater every evening to read and follow the work of a novelist and poet before a large audience. Outside the scene, he drives a sweet melancholy that was lonely. His wife, who took her career, continues business trips to the United States; They love each other, but from afar. He no longer has contact with his daughter, Lisbet, which he does not put in.
Two consistent feature films for Pascal Bonitzer
After her mother’s death, the latter is born again in Robert’s life, but communication is difficult, even impossible: where she holds shelter in texts and in the past, she requires her presence at the moment. Small, in contact with this modern and independent young woman, Robert Zuchin returns to his past, opens others and realizes his art practice …
It will be the 11th feature film of Pascal Bonitzer. The latter will have rich news in 2026 as it will publish two artistic films: Maigret and Le Mort Romantic, on February 18, 2026, and Hugo on March 18, 2026.
Singular genesis
Keep in mind that the film Hugo has a singular genesis. This is indeed a film written by film director Sophie Felice, died on July 31, 2023.
Pascal Bonicer, who shared the life of Sophie Philies, took over the project on which the filmmaker began working 5 years ago. At first, he had to do it before preventing a long disease that eventually released it almost a day ago. In the columns of French film, producer Charles Gillibert (CG Cinema) explains: “In consultation with Agathe Bonitzer and Sophie’s family, we have applied for the sale of Pascal Boniter. “
This is the second project of Sophie Felies, which is in the postpartum period, just like my life (the above trailer), which was released in September 2024.
Hugo Fabrice Luchini will be released on March 18, 2026.
Source: Allocine
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