Emmanuelle: Audrey Diwan announces the start of filming for her film
With Noémie Merlant in the title role.
Two years after the success of The EventGolden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Audrey Diwan goes back behind the camera. She officially launched the filming ofEmmanuellehis adaptation of Emmanuelle Arsan’s sulphurous novel, brought to posterity in the guise of Sylvia Kristel.
In this new version of which we are still waiting to discover the first images, it is Noémie Merlant who will play the famous character, taking the place of Léa Seydoux, who was cast for a while.
We already know that the film will take place in the present day: “Emmanuelle is a woman who is close to my age. The film will take place in Hong Kong, in the luxury hotel where she works. I like the idea of these corridors where my characters brush past each other, meet each other, look for each other.” advances the director in Deadline. “Beyond the question of bodies, I want to explore that of a world which formats all forms of relationships, to look for how this system can go wrong, how we connect to others, how we touch on our own vulnerability. build deeper and deeper bonds between them. With a stranger in particular, a hotel guest…”
Her Emmanuelle should be released in cinemas in 2024.
