Mid-April will see filming begin on La Nouvelle Femme [+lee también:
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Written by Léa Todorov, the story (favoured by the president of the 2022 Screenplay Award) takes us back to 1900 to follow in the wake of Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian darling at the height of her fame, who flees Paris in order to hide her "idiot" daughter. Once in Rome, her life is turned upside down by a meeting with Maria Montessori, a woman doctor who has developed a method for teaching children with learning difficulties. But if Lili wants to play the public part of a "new woman", an emancipated, modern female, she will have to pay the price – a child born out of wedlock and hidden away. She will soon be forced to choose between her child or her fate.

La Nouvelle Femme is produced by Grégoire Debailly (one of the European Film Promotion’s 2019 Producers on the Move – read our interview) on behalf of Geko Films, in co-production with Carlo Cresto-Dina for Italian firm Tempesta Film (who have notably steered all of Alice Rohrwacher’s films, including La chimera [+lee también:
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For the record, Geko Films have just finished shooting a TV fiction film for Arte in the French Occitanie region: Sages-femmes [+lee también:
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