Gaumont Teams With ‘Black Box’ Director on AI-Themed Thriller ‘The Residence’ Starring Cecile de France, Lars Mikkelsen, Mylene Farmer (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent Following a pair of box office hits “Black Box” and “A Perfect Man,” hot French filmmaker Yann Gozlan is now directing Cécile de France (“The Young Pope”), Lars Mikkelsen (“House of Cards”) and French music icon Mylène Farmer in “The Residence,” a tense psychological thriller revolving around AI.
Gaumont is co-producing and handling international sales on the high-concept movie whose first still is being unveiled by Variety.
Gaumont’s EVP of international sales and distribution Alexis Cassanet and his team will be teasing the buzzy French project to buyers at the AFM.
Set in a near future, “The Residence” follows Clarissa (De France), a novelist with writer’s block who joins a prestigious, state-of-the-art artist residency where she’s been assigned an AI assistant named Dalloway (Farmer).
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