Fresh from starring in Mona Achache‘s Little Girl Blue, which premiered to good reviews at the Cannes Film Festival, Marion Cotillard has signed on to work with another French auteur.
She will star in Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s La Tour De Glace, reuniting the actor and director who previously worked together on the 2004 film Innocence.
Co-written by Geoff Cox, the film is set in the 1970s and follows Jeanne, a teenage girl who runs away from her orphanage located in a mountain village. She flees to Paris with big dreams to fulfill, and finds shelter in a warehouse which turns out to be used as a studio where a film titled The Snow Queen is being filmed.
The film’s star, Cristina, a beautiful woman in her forties, takes Jeanne under her wing, and begins exerting a dangerous and overpowering influence over the young girl she sees herself in.
Hadzihalilovic is best known for her strange, enigmatic dramas, such as the aforementioned Innocence as well as the 2015 film Evolution.
But La Tour De Glace is expected to be her most accessible – yet ambitious – film to date. Her latest effort was Earwig, which won the jury prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Muriel Merlin of 3B Productions is producing the film, while Goodfellas – who distributed recent French hit Titane – will handle international releasing.
Cotillard’s Little Girl Blue will get a wide release in November. She’s also lending her voice to The Inventor, a stop-motion animated film about the life of Leonardo da Vinci which also features Stephen Fry and Daisy Ridley.
She’s also currently working on Lee, a biographical drama of photojournalist Lee Miller that also stars Kate Winslet and Andrea Riseborough.
La Tour De Glace is expected to begin filming early next year in France.
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