Last week, we got the confirmation that Jodie Foster and Daniel Auteuil were toplining Rebecca Zlotowski’s Vie Privée and now we have a more complete picture with further casting announcements and a proper logline. Along with new team members in Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Lacoste and Luana Bajrami (who directed her feature debut in the Cannes preemed The Hill Where Lionesses Roar in 2021 – read our review), Zlotowski is re-teaming with her Other People’s Children star Virginie Efira. Production began in late September and will run all the way into late November in Paris and Normandy. We’re putting this down as a Venice Film Festival possibility.… Read the rest
Among the many wise observations written by nineteenth century Englishman Lord Acton, he noted “Great men are almost always bad men…” But what if they were just plain bad to begin with? And what exactly constitutes greatness? With his fourth film, The Apprentice, filmmaker 
Other invited folks bunking in the Paris staycay incvlude Australian filmmaker (based in Berlin) Rudolf Fitzgerald-Leonard (who had his short shown in the Directors’ Fortnight), Colombian filmmaker Theo Montoya of Anhell69 fame, Lithuanian filmmaker Eglė Razumaitė whose last short (Ootidé) was in the running for the short film Palme d’Or, India’s Diwa Shah (she had her feature debut at the 2023 San Sebastian Intl.… 
