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Sydney-based production company Aurora Films is developing an adaptation of late French writer and photographer Hervé Guibert’s 1989 novella Crazy for Vincent.

The autobiographical work charts the author’s infatuation with the titular Vincent Marmousez, a young tearaway who came in and out of his life over the course of six years, before falling to his death from a third-floor window while under the influence of drink and drugs.

The company has optioned the novella and is planning a French-language production which will shoot in France and Europe, with post-production taking place in Australia. Casting is underway with the company aiming to announce a start of shoot date by Cannes in May.

Australian director Jamieson Pearce, a recipient of the Lexus Short Film Fellowship with credits including Adult (SXSW) and Strangers, has adapted the novella and will make his feature directorial debut with the production.

“Hervé Guibert’s writing is fearless and unflinching.

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Directors Lukas Dhont and Lisandro Alonso join jury chief Nadine Labaki.

Belgian direcor Lukas Dhont, French actress Marina Foïs, German producer Nurhan Sekerci-Porst, and Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso have joined Nadine Labaki on the jury for Un Certain Regard a this month’s Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25).

Dhont participated in the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence in 2016 with the script of his first acclaimed feature Girl, which won the Caméra d’Or for best first feature in Un Certain Regard in Cannes last year. He is now working on his second feature.

Foïs was nominated for the César for most promising actress in Filles Perdues,...

Prize-winners to be announced on May 24 at Un Certain Regard closing ceremony.

Un Certain Regard has announced (30) the jury led by Lebanese director and actor Nadine Labaki ahead of Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 14-25.

Besides Labaki (pictured), the three-woman, two-man jury comprises: director Lukas Dhont (Belgium), actor Marina Foïs (France), producer Nurhan Sekerci-Porst (Germany), and director Lisandro Alonso (Argentina).

Dhont participated in the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence in 2016 with the script of his first acclaimed feature Girl, which earned the Caméra d’or for best first feature in Un Certain Regard in Cannes last year. He is currently working on his second feature.

Film, opera and stage director known for La Reine Margot and his Ring cycle at Bayreuth in 1976

Unusually for a director, Patrice Chéreau, who has died of lung cancer aged 68, had more or less equally prestigious careers in the theatre, cinema and opera. Although he was internationally known from films such as La Reine Margot (1994) and his groundbreaking production of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle at Bayreuth (1976), he was renowned in his native France mostly for his "must-see" stage productions, especially during his long stints as co-director of the Théâtre National Populaire (1971-77) and the Théâtre des Amandiers (1982-90).

At these two subsidised theatres, in Villeurbanne, near Lyons, and Nanterre, in western Paris, respectively, Chéreau was able to introduce modern plays and bring a freshness to bear on the classics, particularly Marivaux, whose La Dispute he directed to acclaim at the Tnp in three different versions in the 1970s. At the Amandiers,...

Patrice Chéreau dead at 68: French director best known for ‘Queen Margot,’ gay-related dramas (photo: Patrice Chéreau; Isabelle Adjani in ‘Queen Margot’) Screenwriter, sometime actor, and stage, opera, and film director Patrice Chéreau, whose clinically cool — some might say sterile — films were arthouse favorites in some quarters, has died of lung cancer in Paris. Chéreau was 68. Born on November 2, 1944, in Lézigné, in France’s Maine-et-Loire department, and raised in Paris, Patrice Chéreau began directing plays in his late teens. In the mid-’60s, he became the director of a theater in Sartrouville, northwest of Paris, where he staged plays with a strong left-wing bent. Later on he moved to Milan’s Piccolo Teatro, and in the ’80s became the director of the Théâtre des Amandiers in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre. His 1976 staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth was considered revolutionary. Patrice Chéreau...

Christophe Honoré's latest film stars some of the greatest actors in contemporary France. Beloved features Catherine Deneuve, who appears alongside her real-life daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, as well as Ludivine Sagnier, who is best-known for her work in François Ozon's racy film Swimming Pool. Make no mistake -- Beloved is about women, although the men are no slouches: Milos Forman, Louis Garrel, Paul Schneider, Michel Delpech and Rasha Bukvic round out the main cast. But Honoré's focus is about love and loss, specifically for the multifaceted and often mysterious female characters we see on screen. We had the opportunity to sit down with the filmmaker to discuss his life and work in order to find out more about his motivations. Scroll down for images.

You’ve recently co-written ‘Let My People Go.’ How did you get involved with this project?

It’s actually really simple. I give some courses at Fémis,...