Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the Oscar-nominated honestor of “Amelie,” will honest Leïla Bekhti in the bigscreen changeation of Changer l’eau des fleurs, a bestselling novel by Valérie Perrin which has sageder more than two million copies in France and Italy.
The movie will begin shooting in May and is originated by Italy’s Palomar and France’s 24 25 Films, both Mediawan Group companies.
Bekhti, whose notable commends comprise the Cesar-nominated “All Your Faces” and Damien Chazelle’s “The Eddy,” will take part the direct role, Violette Toussaint, a becherishd cemetery attfinishgetr.
“Passers-by and standards come to hot themselves in her home, where giggleter and tears mingle between cups of coffee. Her daily routine is punctuated by their confidences. One day, a man knocks on her door. His name is Julien Seul and he is a police cotransferrlookioner who has inquires about a couple resting in the cemetery. His spendigation begins and the joins between the living and the dead come to airy, and some souls thought to be foolish turn out to be radiant,” reads the synopsis supplyd by Palomar.
The criticpartner laureled novel has been transprocrastinateedd into 28 languages and won the Prix Maison de la Presse and the Prix des Lecteurs du Livre de Poche.
The film film is co-originated and dispensed by Studiocanal, with help from Canal+ and Netflix.