Even after worthwhile an Oscar, a Palme d’Or and 6 Cesar awards with Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” French producer Marie-Ange Luciani isn’t resting on her laurels. The Paris-based producer, who runs the company Les Films de Pierre, nonetheless strives to work with rising filmmakers and newcomers, akin to Laura Wandel, whose second perform, “Adam’s Sake,” opened this 12 months’s Cannes Critics Week to warmth critiques. She’s moreover cultivated relationships with established auteurs, akin to Robin Campillo, who gained Cannes’ 2017 Jury Prize with “BPM (Beats Per Minute)” and opened Directors’ Fortnight this 12 months with “Enzo,” which he accomplished after his shut good pal Laurent Cantet, the helmer of the Palme d’Or worthwhile “The Class,” died sooner than he would possibly finish the drama.
Other than creating Triet’s adjust to as a lot as “Anatomy of a Fall” – which may shoot as a minimum in English with some principal stars — Luciani is wanting ahead at a busy 2026.
She’ll subsequent work for the first time with Alain Guiraudie, the director of the Cannes prizewinning sexually daring thriller “Stranger by the Lake.” Guiraudie is adapting Robert Merle’s “L’Ile,” an journey novel impressed by the ill-fated true story of the HMS Bounty mutineers in 1789.
“This information received right here out throughout the Seventies and was an enormous hit on the time. It’s a fictionalized account of the true story of the Bounty rebels in Polynesia,” Luciani acknowledged, together with that she hopes to shoot the film subsequent 12 months on location in Polynesia.
“Will most likely be an journey film and may most likely be Guiraudie’s most formidable endeavor so far and likewise actually one in all his most political, with a contact of eccentricity,” acknowledged Luciani. “It’s a story about land distribution and the way in which can we assemble a democracy collectively, so it could have a nicely timed resonance,” she continued.
Guiraudie’s ultimate film, “Miséricorde,” carried out at Cannes Premiere in 2024 and was shortlisted by France’s Oscar committee.
Luciani may be teaming up with Canadian producer Nancy Grant to supply Monia Chokri’s subsequent movie, which may mark the actor-turned-director’s first film set in France, with a neighborhood cast.
Chokri’s engaging romantic comedy “The Nature of Love” carried out at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard and gained the Cesar Award for best worldwide film, beating Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” in 2024. Chokri is at Cannes with two films throughout which she stars, Alice Douard’s “Des preuves d’amour,” participating in at Critics’ Week, and Anna Cazenave Cambert’s “Love Me Tender” at Un Certain Regard.
Luciani may be involved with non-fiction. She’s partnering with Envie de Tempeête Prods. on a documentary perform known as “Une vie manifeste,” directed by Jean-Gabriel Periot, regarding the lifetime of Michèle Firk, a trailblazing French journalist, film critic and anti-colonial activist who rose to prominence throughout the Sixties and Seventies.
Luciani says Firk wished to show right into a filmmaker nonetheless on the time, on account of she was a woman “she wasn’t allowed to remain her dream.” Due to this, she joined the army, after which traveled to South America and “turned politically involved, so much so that she devoted suicide on the age of 30 on account of police have been coming to arrest her and he or she didn’t want to be tortured into giving up information,” Luciani acknowledged. The documentary, which is being produced for Arte, may be primarily based totally on Firk’s personal diary and may be within the an identical vein as Periot’s earlier documentary “Fragments.” Will most likely be narrated two well-known French actors.
Lastly, Luciani is working with Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz on her perform debut, “Le triangle d’or,” which may star Mallory Wanecque (“Beating Hearts”). Impressed by Rosselet-Ruiz’s life, the movie will revolve throughout the unlikely bond between a youthful cleaning girl and a Saudi girl she works for throughout the posh sixteenth arrondissement of Paris.
“The filmmaker, Helene, moreover labored as a cleaner for a Saudi girl to pay for her analysis at La Fémis,” Luciani acknowledged. “It’s an beautiful story on account of it really shows on the female scenario, between a youthful cleaning girl trapped in her very precarious social scenario, and this Saudi girl who’s participating in a sport of freedom on account of she’s wealthy nonetheless is trapped in a cultural context in her nation that forestalls her from being really free.” The endeavor has already lured prime companions, along with MK2 Films and Advert Vitam for worldwide product sales and French distribution, respectively.
Luciani says she likes to take care of producing perform debuts, even when financing them is “a long-distance race.” It makes me assume that we don’t have a easy job, nonetheless it’s necessary that I help these youthful directors, male or female, so that I can see points with a up to date perspective, and understand how they view the world.
Luciani says she has tried to take care of her slate of duties at a manageable measurement after the success of “Anatomy of a Fall” on account of she needs to “maintain a certain diploma of experience.”
“I have to have the power to make investments myself throughout the films. My method of producing is to stay close to the directors I work with, and maintain a sure amount of freedom, on account of the additional you produce, the additional you develop your group and the additional you should produce to take care of your group and your staff going,” acknowledged Luciani, whose banner has a staff of 5 people.
She acknowledged Les Films de Pierre has, nonetheless, already picked up the tempo over the previous three years, taking photos two films per 12 months as an alternative of 1. “And subsequent 12 months, I’m planning on three,” she acknowledged.
