Berlin Film Festival Day 5 Recap: SPC Snags Jodie Foster Starrer ‘Vie Privée,’ Plan B’s Dede Gardner on Living in L.A., Making ‘Mickey 17’ and ‘Nickel Boys’
variety.comWilliam Earl Sales activity at the Berlin Film Festival and European Film Market revved up on Saturday as Sony Pictures Classics struck a deal for North American rights to Rebecca Zlotowski’s murder mystery “Vie Privée,” starring Jodie Foster. Variety‘s Elsa Keslassy had the scoop on SPC’s deal for the film, which also covers key territories in Latin America. “Shot in Paris and Normandy, ‘Vie Privée’ is currently in post-production and will likely world premiere in the festival circuit,” Keslassy writes.
Foster, who speaks fluent French, stars in the film as renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner, who mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients after she becomes convinced that there has been a murder.
Foster last starred in a French-language film 20 years ago in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Oscar-nominated “A Very Long Engagement.” Zlotowski ranks as one of France’s top filmmakers. “Vie Privée” marks her first deal with Sony Pictures Classics.
Earlier in the festival, Keslassy sat down with Plan B co-founder Dede Gardner for an on-stage European Film Market Industry Talk session in which she discussed the political and cultural climate in her native Los Angeles.
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