After winning France’s top literary award, Jean-Baptiste Andrea’s novel “Watching Over Her,” a decade-spanning epic romance, is set for a screen adaptation.
Muriel Sauzay and François Ivernel, two former top-level executives at French major Pathé, won a bidding war to secure rights to the Goncourt-prizewinning book from the publishing house L’Iconoclaste.
“Watching Over Her” already ranks as one of the best-selling Goncourt winners in the prize’s 121-year history, having sold over 700,000 copies to date. The book has so far been translated into 34 languages, and will soon published in English by Atlantic Books. “Watching Over Her” has also received the Fnac Novel Prize and recently snatched up the Grand Prix des Lectrices Elle. Sauzay’s banner Maremako and Ivernel’s outfit Montebello will be developing the screen adaptation and are currently assembling a creative team.
Set against the backdrop of political turmoil in 20th-century Italy, “Watching Over...
Muriel Sauzay and François Ivernel, two former top-level executives at French major Pathé, won a bidding war to secure rights to the Goncourt-prizewinning book from the publishing house L’Iconoclaste.
“Watching Over Her” already ranks as one of the best-selling Goncourt winners in the prize’s 121-year history, having sold over 700,000 copies to date. The book has so far been translated into 34 languages, and will soon published in English by Atlantic Books. “Watching Over Her” has also received the Fnac Novel Prize and recently snatched up the Grand Prix des Lectrices Elle. Sauzay’s banner Maremako and Ivernel’s outfit Montebello will be developing the screen adaptation and are currently assembling a creative team.
Set against the backdrop of political turmoil in 20th-century Italy, “Watching Over...
- 6/20/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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Is anyone out there? If so, can people here cope with whoever or whatever that might be? The French TV series UFOs (OVNIs) gives us a rather light-hearted view of how that may play out. Think of it as an X-Files run by Steve Carrell’s character from The Office.
It’s 1978. Didier (Melvil Poupaud) is in charge of France’s major missile launch that was years in the making. It fizzles spectacularly, but no one, including his ex-wife and collaborator Elise (Geraldine Pailhas), can figure out what went wrong. In the wake of his high-profile flop, someone’s head must roll, so the boss dumps him into an obscure department that deals with reported UFO sightings. That sub-agency is merely a joke to the country’s aerospace scientists and politicians, so his mission is to debunk all the rumors to justify shutting it down.
Didier finds...
Is anyone out there? If so, can people here cope with whoever or whatever that might be? The French TV series UFOs (OVNIs) gives us a rather light-hearted view of how that may play out. Think of it as an X-Files run by Steve Carrell’s character from The Office.
It’s 1978. Didier (Melvil Poupaud) is in charge of France’s major missile launch that was years in the making. It fizzles spectacularly, but no one, including his ex-wife and collaborator Elise (Geraldine Pailhas), can figure out what went wrong. In the wake of his high-profile flop, someone’s head must roll, so the boss dumps him into an obscure department that deals with reported UFO sightings. That sub-agency is merely a joke to the country’s aerospace scientists and politicians, so his mission is to debunk all the rumors to justify shutting it down.
Didier finds...
- 9/5/2022
- by Mark Glass
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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