We have the first details on the next feature films from a pair of French auteurs who arguably are both coming off what might be their career bests. Xavier Giannoli (2021’s Lost Illusions) and Rebecca Zlotowski (2022’s Other People’s Children) will likely be moving into film productions as early as this year with the Cineuropa folks reporting that their latest features have received CNC advance coin. Giannoli’s next feature Jean et Corinne Luchaire (produced by Curiosa Films) is based on real-life events and revolves around a father and daughter who collaborated with the Germans in the Second World War: the journalist and press baron Jean Luchaire, who fled Sigmaringen upon France’s liberation and was later sentenced to death and executed in 1946, and his daughter Corinne, who was an up-and-coming actress between 1935 and 1940 before she was forced to halt her career for health reasons, who was briefly married to a German officer, who fled alongside her father having now become his secretary, and who was sentenced to ten years’ national indignity.… Read the rest
