Twelve years after making his French-language directorial debut with “The Previous,” two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is ready to return to Paris for his subsequent movie, “Parallel Tales.”
The movie, whose plot stays underneath wraps, carry collectively a robust French solid, together with Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”), Virginie Efira (“Benedetta”), Vincent Cassel (“Black Swan”), Pierre Niney (“The Rely of Monte Cristo”) and Adam Bessa (“Ghost Path”). Iconic French actor Catherine Deneuve can even make an look within the movie.
Produced by long-time collaborator Alexandre Mallet-Man alongside with Asghar Farhadi and David Levine, the status venture might be launched by Charades and UTA Unbiased Movie Group on the upcoming Cannes Movie Market. Charades will deal with worldwide gross sales, whereas UTA Unbiased Movie Group will rep U.S. rights. Farhadi is ready to start manufacturing on “Parallel Tales” in Paris this fall.
The Iranian director’s most up-to-date movie, “A Hero,” earned the Grand Prize at Cannes in 2021 and was nominated for a Golden Globe.
“Parallel Tales” marks Farhadi’s eagerly awaited comply with as much as “A Hero” which earned the Grand Prize at Cannes in 2021. The helmer, who’s connected to France by way of his friendship and collaboration with Mallet-Man, beforehand struck a chord with “The Previous” which starred Tahar Rahim and Berenice Bejo. The film competed at Cannes in 2013 and received greatest actress for Bejo, and acquired 5 César nominations and a Golden Globe nomination in 2014.
In addition to “The Previous,” Mallet-Man’s Paris-based firm Memento Manufacturing three extra movies by Farhadi, “The Salesman,” which received two awards at Cannes for its screenplay and lead actor in 2016, and the Oscar for greatest overseas language movie the next 12 months; “All people Is aware of,” Farhadi’s Spanish-language debut starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, which opened and competed at Cannes in 2018; and lastly “A Hero.” On high of manufacturing, Memento, which is one in every of France’s main distribution firms, will deal with the discharge “Parallel Tales” in France.
The solid of “Parallel Tales” is especially thrilling because it mixes a few of the largest names in French cinema from completely different generations and cinematic horizons, notably Huppert and Efira, and Cassel and Niney, whose latest epic movie “The Rely of Monte-Cristo” was France’s second largest field workplace hit in 2024 with 10 million admissions bought. Bessa, in the meantime, is a rising French expertise who was nominated for a Cesar Award for his efficiency in “Ghost Path this 12 months” earlier this 12 months.
“Parallel Tales” is anticipated to be theatrically launched in France within the Spring of 2026. The movie might be an official French-Italian-Belgian coproduction between Alexandre Mallet-Man’s Memento Manufacturing in France, Andrea Occhipinti’s Fortunate Pink in Italy, and André Logie’s Panache Productions and Gaëtan David’s La Compagnie Cinématographique in Belgium. Nameless Content material within the US can even co-produce the movie.
Memento Manufacturing, whose auteur-driven manufacturing credit embody Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Palme d’Or “Winter Sleep” and “On Barren Weeds,” is headed for a robust Cannes Movie Pageant with Tarik Saleh’s “Eagles of The Republic” set to world premiere in competitors. “Eagles of The Republic” will reteam Mallet-Man’s Memento Manufacturing with Saleh following “Cairo Conspiracy” which had received greatest script at Cannes in 2022.
Nameless Content material’s credit embody Oscar-winning movies equivalent to “The Revenant,” “Highlight,” “Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts” and “Mr. Robotic,” together with latest and upcoming tasks equivalent to “The Nickel Boys,” “True Detective: Season 4,” Alfonso Cuarón’s “Disclaimer,” “East of Eden” starring Florence Pugh, and “Neuromancer” starring Callum Turner.
Government producer credit embody Carole Baraton, Yohann Comte, Pierre Mazars, Yousra Filali, Stefano Massenzi, Chadwick Prichard, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Maciej Musial and Lila Yacoub.
Asghar Farhadi
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