After the mixed success of “BigBug” on Netflix, the director wants to adapt the novel by Valérie Perrin, with actress Leïla Bekhti in the lead role.
From Amélie Poulain to Violette Toussaint. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of The Fabulous Destiny ofAmélie Poulaind’A long engagement Sunday and more recently BigBugwill adapt Valérie Perrin's best-seller for the screen, Change the flower water.
The story of this cemetery guard from a small town in Burgundy, Violette Toussaint, sold more than 850,000 copies in 2018. It has been translated into 28 languages.
To play the heroine of this film, Jean-Pierre Jeunet chose the actress Leïla Bekhti. Dominique Pinon, seen in almost all of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's films from Delicatessen to Alien, Resurrection, via BigBug, will also be part of the adventure.
“Our universes are extremely close”
Valérie Perrin, companion and co-writer of Claude Lelouch, speaks in the columns of Paris Match this week about a fairly natural collaboration with the director, whose universe, she says, inspired her. “Our worlds are extremely close,” she says. “A long engagement Sunday influenced me a lot in my work, especially for my first novel The forgotten Sundays.”
-She co-wrote the screenplay for this adaptation with Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant, the filmmaker's loyal collaborator.
“For this film,” assures Jean-Pierre Jeunet, “there will be no Amélie fantasy, no shot of a beating heart, because that would be too much.”
“But there are elements that already excite me before shooting them. When Valérie writes that death is like a dog slaloming between our legs, ready to bite us at any moment, I immediately visualize how I am going to put this in pictures”, he confides to Paris Match.
