Valérie Lemercier and Niels Schneider are in the cast of Woody Allen's next film,
Variety
tells us .
For his fiftieth film, the New York director is returning to Paris for filming which will begin in October.
Billed as
“exciting, dramatic and also very sinister”
in the vein of
Match Point
, the film will be entirely in French with a budget of around ten million dollars, according to our American colleagues.
As of now, the title and plot have not been disclosed.
Choice Cast
This is not Woody Allen's first shoot in Europe.
Match Point
was made in the UK,
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
in Spain for the most part and
Midnight in Paris,
winner of the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, in the French capital.
His previous film
Rifkin's Festival
, featuring Louis Garrel, was also shot in Spain.
Presented at the opening of the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2020, the feature film attracted less than 100,000 spectators in France.
For his next creation, Woody Allen has surrounded himself with a cast of choice.
Protagonist of
Aline
, a film freely inspired by the life of Celine Dion which she also directed, Valérie Lemercier won the César for best actress this year.
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Consecrated by the César for best male hope in 2017 for his role in Arthur Harari's drama
Diamant noir
, Niels Schneider recently took over the character of Gaspard Ulliel, tragically disappeared in a skiing accident on January 19, in the first television series by Xavier Giannoli,
Tikkoun,
the shooting of which has just been completed.
In a rare interview in June, Woody Allen did not rule out the film being his last, saying he had lost
"a lot of (his) enthusiasm"
for the movies.
Words that his spokesperson denied this week, saying that the 86-year-old filmmaker had
“no intention of retiring”.