Vanessa Paradis has joined the French-language romantic drama "Cafe de flore" for Item7, Monkey Pack Films and Crazyfilms says The Hollywood Reporter.
The narrative follows two different storylines - one set in the 1960s which follows the mother (Paradis) of a child with Down syndrome. The other is in the present and follows a couple.
Jean-Marc Vallee ("The Young Victoria," "C.R.A.Z.Y.") directs from a script he wrote and describes as an "epic love story that deals with supernatural resources".
Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin, Jean-Yves Robin, Nicolas Coppermann and Vanessa Fourgeaud will produce. Filming kicks off this Summer in Montreal and Paris.
The narrative follows two different storylines - one set in the 1960s which follows the mother (Paradis) of a child with Down syndrome. The other is in the present and follows a couple.
Jean-Marc Vallee ("The Young Victoria," "C.R.A.Z.Y.") directs from a script he wrote and describes as an "epic love story that deals with supernatural resources".
Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin, Jean-Yves Robin, Nicolas Coppermann and Vanessa Fourgeaud will produce. Filming kicks off this Summer in Montreal and Paris.
- 5/20/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Vanessa Paradis is set to star in the French-Canadian romance film "Cafe de Flore." Jean-Marc Vallee ("The Young Victoria") directs from his own screenplay. Paradis stars as a devoted mother to a developmentally disabled child. The film will follow parallel stories set in Paris in the 1960s and Montreal in 2010. Item7, Crazyfilms and Monkey Pack Films co-produce. Item 7's Pierre Even and Marie-Claude Poulin produce with Jean-Yves Robin, Nicolas Coppermann and Vanessa Fourgeaud of Monkey Pack films and Vallee for Crazyfilms. Principal photography starts this summer in Montreal then moves to Paris.
- 5/19/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Vanessa Paradis will star in "Cafe de flore," a time-spanning love story that marks director Jean-Marc Vallee's return to French-language filmmaking.
French-Canadian Vallee wrote and directed 2005's "C.R.A.Z.Y.," his award-winning 1970s-set breakthrough, then directed the Emily Blunt period movie "Young Victoria," released last year. He began writing "Cafe" just before he took on the Graham King-produced "Victoria."
"I have been writing it since 2007, and when I was offered 'Young Victoria,' a love story, I thought why not do it, it will be good practice," said Vallee, who also directs. "I see this as a continuation of 'C.R.A.Z.Y,' which gave me the confidence and the wings to fly high."
Vallee describes "Cafe" as "an epic love story that deals with supernatural resources." It tells two stories, one set in the 1960s and follows a mother of a child with Down syndrome, and the other...
French-Canadian Vallee wrote and directed 2005's "C.R.A.Z.Y.," his award-winning 1970s-set breakthrough, then directed the Emily Blunt period movie "Young Victoria," released last year. He began writing "Cafe" just before he took on the Graham King-produced "Victoria."
"I have been writing it since 2007, and when I was offered 'Young Victoria,' a love story, I thought why not do it, it will be good practice," said Vallee, who also directs. "I see this as a continuation of 'C.R.A.Z.Y,' which gave me the confidence and the wings to fly high."
Vallee describes "Cafe" as "an epic love story that deals with supernatural resources." It tells two stories, one set in the 1960s and follows a mother of a child with Down syndrome, and the other...
- 5/18/2010
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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