French filmmaker Anna Cazenave Cambet was setting up shop for her sophomore feature with Vicky Krieps and Antoine Reinartz (Anatomy of a Fall fame) in the early mix. Now we learned that production has began with filmmaker-actress Monia Chokri and Ji-Min Park (lead in Return to Seoul) joining the top billing. Cambet’s Love Me Tender is an adaptation of the 2020 novel by Constance Debré — essentially this is the story of the writer as she loses custody of her son and her concept of love is shaken. the catch here is that the mother who leaves her past behind discovers her homosexuality at the age of 40.… Read the rest
