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TF1 International to sell Thérèse…

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Announced at Cannes, Claude Miller’s project Thérèse… features officially on the TF1 International line-up at the Toronto Film Festival which kicked off yesterday. Adapted from the novel of the same name by François Mauriac (published in 1927 and translated in 28 languages), the film which will star Audrey Tautou will shoot next year, Yves Marmion heading production for UGC-YM.

The intrigue has as its setting the France of the 1920s where the lovely and free-spirited Thérèse marries her neighbour Bernard Desqueyroux, thus joining their respective properties into one vast estate. Bernard tolerates his brilliant, passionate young wife’s strong character and opinions, but she soon finds herself suffocated by the boredom of her provincial life and her husband’s intellectual mediocrity. She dreams of Paris, longs for stimulation and culture and, despite herself, starts to seek a way out. Until the day Bernard gets intoxicated with deadly arsenic… What starts as a mistake turns into an attempt to poison him. Thérèse is found out and, in addition to being disgraced in both her own and her husband’s families, she must face justice for her attempted murder…

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TF1 International (partner of UGC) is also starting sales at Toronto of another title inspired by a murder, but a contemporary one this time: Possessions (Greed) by Eric Guirado (see article) . Currently in post-production, the film features a cast including Julie Depardieu, Jérémie Renier, Alexandra Lamy and Lucien Jean-Baptiste.

At Toronto, Nicolas Eschbach team’s will also negociate for Our Day Will Come [+see also:
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by Romain Gavras (see news), set to make its world premiere screening in the Vanguard section with Vincent Cassel in the lead role. The Canadian festival programme also features Crime d’amour, directed by the recently deceased Alain Corneau.

Among the numerous titles on the TF1 International line-up are post-production title Philippe Claudel’s Silence of Love (see article), André Téchiné ’s Unforgivable (see news), Raphaël Jacoulot ’s The Night Clerk (see news) and 3D animated feature Le chat du rabbin by directing duo Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux, and last but not least Cannes titles The Name of Loves [+see also:
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by Michel Leclerc and Lights Out [+see also:
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by Fabrice Gobert and Jacques Malaterre’s Ao, le dernier Neandertal (see news).

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(Translated from French)

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