Published on June 27, 2024 at 11:02 a.m.
Jean-Baptise Andrea – ©Alexandre Fay / Bestimage
“Veiller sur elle”, by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, winner of the 2023 Goncourt Prize, will soon be adapted for the cinema.
From the bookstore to the cinema, there is sometimes only one step. “Veiller sur elle”, by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Goncourt 2023 prize and a real success in bookstores with more than 700,000 copies sold, will be adapted for the cinema, we learned from a press release. The book also won the fiction prize a few days ago, as part of our ELLE Readers’ Grand Prize. The rights were signed between the publishing house L’Iconoclaste, Maremako and Montebello Productions.
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“I am enchanted by the idea of seeing the exceptional beings from my novel come to life on the screen, in the colors and darkness of a past world, and yet so current,” declared Jean-Baptiste Andrea, also a filmmaker and screenwriter in addition to his writer’s hat. For the moment, no information regarding the director and the casting has been revealed.
A novel between love, art and politics
“Watch over her”, a novel of more than 500 pages published by the publishing house L’Iconoclaste, mixes love and politics with the history of 20th century Italy as a backdrop. The story ? “Mimo, a genius sculptor, Viola, his unwavering accomplice, and a Pietà with mysterious powers, will be the three main protagonists of this adaptation,” details the press release. A work about chaste love, the power of art and the rise of fascism.
