Sony Pictures Classics Buys Jodie Foster Murder Mystery Movie ‘Vie Privée’ for North America and Latin America (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent In one of the first major deals unveiled at the European Film Market, Sony Pictures Classics (“I’m Still Here”) has bought “Vie Privée,” a highly anticipated, humor-laced murder mystery movie starring Jodie Foster and directed by Rebecca Zlotowski (“Other People’s Children”), for North America and Latin America territories.
The Oscar winner stars in the film as renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner who mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.
Foster last starred in a French-language film 20 years ago in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Oscar-nominated “A Very Long Engagement.” Foster, who recently won an Emmy and a Golden Globe her turn in HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country,” stars in “Vie Privée” alongside a flurry of international stars, including Daniel Auteuil (“Farewell, Mr Haffman”) and Efira (“Other People’s Children”), Mathieu Almaric (“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”), Vincent Lacoste (“Lost Illusions”) and Luana Bajrami (“Portrait of a Lady On Fire”).
Shot in Paris and Normandy, “Vie Privée” is currently in post-production and will likely world premiere in the festival circuit. “Vie Privée” marks the first collaboration between Sony Pictures Classics and Zlotowski.
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