With Patrice Leconte directing, Sandrine Bonnaire and Fabrice Luchini in the main roles, and production by Les Films Alain Sarde (with a budget of €6.1m), Too Much Information is filled with promise. This comedy in a melanconic key, suffused with an atmosphere straight from Hitchcock, is the story of a young woman who decides to go to see a psychiatrist, but she makes a mistake and ends up baring her soul to a complete stranger, who doesn’t tell her his real identity. The film is due to be released in France on February 25, 2004.

84 year old Eric Rohmer has chosen the world of espionage for his new film, Triple agent, set in Paris in 1936. It recounts the adventures of a couple, a painter of Greek origins (Katerina Didaskalou) and an old tsarist general in exile who becomes a spy (Serge Renko). It is produced by Françoise Etchégaray for the Eric Rohmer Company, and co-produced by Rezo Films. Triple agent will be released in France on March 17, 2004.

Red Lights is the sixth film by Cédric Kahn, and it reunites the acting duo Carole Bouquet-Jean-Pierre Darroussin in this adaptation of a detective novel written by Georges Simenon. It is co-produced by Alicéléo and France 3 Cinéma, with a budget of €5m. There’s a lot of anticipation for this film, coming three years after Roberto Succo.

In the Panorama section there’s L’Esquive by Abdellatif Bechiche, which will be trying to capitalise the critical acclaim it won in France with success in the international arena. It was released on the domestic market on January 7, distributed by Rezo Films. This is the director’s second film (after La faute à Voltaire) and it has a small budget, made available by Jacques Ouaniche for Noé Productions. It is about a group of youngsters from the tough Parisian suburbs, who are putting on a play by Marivaux. It takes a fresh and unprejudiced look at some of the lesser known aspects of the young French generation, a group that is often caricatured by the media.

(Translated from French)