Judith Godrèche embarks on the adaptation of an important novel, “daughter's memory” by Annie Ernaux. A recently cesarized actress will be in the casting!
It is a very beautiful project that promises to be under the leadership of Judith Godrèche! As reported Teleramathe actress, screenwriter and director will make a new film adapted from an important novel in the history of French literature.
With the memory of a girl, Annie Ernaux plunged back in the summer of 1958, the one in which she left the family home for the first time to go to a summer camp in the Orne department, in Normandy, where she works as an instructor …
Judith Godrèche will sign the adaptation and realization for cinema.
A author, Nobel Prize in literature
Annie Ernaux is one of the most important French authors. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022. We owe her novels like Event or simple passion, both adapted brilliantly to the cinema. Recently, she had documented her life in very beautiful documentary in Super 8 years.
For this project, a first actress was announced, and it is a young freshly caesarized talent: Maiwène Barthélémy! It was the revelation of the surprise success twenty-two. This is the first project she has joined since her César for female revelation last February.
Judith Godrèche will realize but will not be in front of the camera. The shooting should start this fall.
It will be the 2nd feature film directed by Judith Godrèche, after all the girls cry (2010). Judith Godrèche also made the short film Mo too (2024) and the Icon of French Cinema series for Arte (2023).