Shubhabrata Dutta
Mounia Meddour will team up with a familiar French performer in her next directorial feature! The Cinemaholic has learned that ‘Emily in Paris‘ fame Camille Razat will star alongside Elsa Zylberstein in the upcoming war romance drama ‘Lise.’ The project will enter production in France on May 26 this year. Lyna Khoudri and Anthony Bajon are also part of the cast. Joanne Giger wrote the screenplay.
The narrative, set during the liberation of Paris in 1944 (World War II), takes place in Chartres, which has just been liberated from the German occupation. The Giraud family has had the baton of hairdressers passed down from father to son. Thus, when Pierre’s father died in a labor camp a year earlier, he took over the men’s salon. His mother, Marie, a heroine of the French Resistance, takes care of the women’s salon while helping her son get more clients. Everything happens in a very orderly fashion until Lise enters their lives.
Camille Razat is globally renowned for portraying Camille in the romantic drama ‘Emily in Paris.’ In Victor Saint Macary’s rom-com ‘(Girl)Friend,’ she played Julie. Her other notable acting credits include Quitterie in Yvan Attal’s crime drama ‘The Accusation’ and Claire Vallois in the biographical drama ‘Prodigieuses,’ based on the lives of the pianist sisters Diane and Audrey Pleynet. She is also part of the cast of Bill Fishman’s ‘Waltzing with Brando,’ based on the life of the legendary actor Marlon Brando (Billy Zane).
Elsa Zylberstein portrayed French politician/Holocaust survivor Simone Veil in Olivier Dahan’s biographical drama ‘Simone Veil, A Woman of the Century.’ We also saw her as Eleonore Baumann in the Prime Video comedy series ‘Alphonse.’ Her latest roles are Léa Massaro in Claude Lelouch’s comedy movie ‘Finalement,’ which follows a truthful lawyer on a cross-country road trip, and Caroline in Woody Allen’s infidelity-based thriller comedy movie ‘Coup de Chance.’
Mounia Meddour’s acclaimed directorial features are the dance drama ‘Houria,’ which centers on an Algerian ballerina who helps others like her recover through dancing after an accident, and ‘Papicha,’ which revolves around a young woman named Nedjma who dreams of creating a fashion show in Islamic state-run Algiers.
High-profile projects shot in France include Mubi’s ‘The Substance,’ Netflix’s ‘Emily in Paris,’ and BBC/Canal+’s historical drama series ‘Marie Antoinette.’
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