French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has introduced he’s adapting bestselling novel Changer l’eau des fleurs by Valérie Perrin, with Leïla Bekhti within the lead position as a beloved cemetery caretaker with a tragic backstory.
The Oscar-nominated Amélie director unveiled particulars of the venture in an unique interview with French journal Paris Match.
Italian firm Palomar acquired adaptation rights to the novel in 2021 and is main the manufacturing with Paris-based 24 25 Films (Barbès, Little Algeria and Visions), each of that are Mediawan firms.
Studiocanal is co-producing and also will distribute the movie in France and deal with worldwide gross sales, whereas Canal+ and Netflix are backing the manufacturing.
Changer l’eau des fleurs, which interprets as “altering the flower water”, revolves round a lady referred to as Violette Toussaint who’s the caretaker for a cemetery in a small city in Burgundy.
Violette is on the coronary heart of this small world, populated by the native gravediggers and a younger priest in addition to the numerous guests, who cease by her lodge and speak in confidence to her about their lives and misplaced ones.
As she listens to those tales, some tragic, some comedian, and displays on questions of life, loss of life, grief and the easy joys of life, her personal painful backstory is revealed by way of a tragicomic prism.
“She is a personality stuffed with gentle, even for me who doesn’t have a peaceable relationship with loss of life,” Bekhti advised Paris Match. “She is timeless, resilient. I like these characters who’re extraordinarily distinctive and on the similar time who converse to you. There’s nothing extra stunning and extra poetic than searching for life by way of loss of life.”
The novel was first revealed in 2018 in France, the place it has bought 850, 000 copies, and has since been translated into 28 languages.
It’s the second literary work of novelist, screenwriter and photographer Perrin, who additionally co-wrote a lot of screenplays with husband Claude Lelouche for his movies, together with We Love You, You Bastard (2014), Un + Une (2015) and The Finest Years of a Life (2019).
Jeunet, who has tailored the novel for the massive display, advised Paris Match that whereas the novel had a poetic and fantastical edge, he was not planning to visualise this straight on the massive display as he had carried out in Amélie with scenes reminiscent of that of her heartbeat.
“However there are parts that already excite me earlier than I shoot them,” he stated. “When Valérie writes that loss of life is sort of a canine slaloming between our legs, able to chunk us at any second, I instantly visualize how I’m going to place this into photos.”
He steered, nonetheless, that his strategy could be extra simplistic with this movie saying he had taken inspiration for tone from Russian director Mikhail Kalatozov’s 1958 Cannes Palme d’Or winner The Cranes Are Flying.
Changer L’Eau Des Fleurs is because of begin capturing in Could 2025.
