As soon as I saw Jacques Audiard‘s A Prophet he became one of my favorite filmmakers. It didn’t really matter what would come after or came before that film, I was simply in awe, watching the 2 hour and 35 minute epic back-to-back one night on a screener and then watching it again in theaters once it was screened for press here in Seattle. I have since caught up with his 2005 film The Beat That My Heart Skipped and also love his 2005 feature, Rust and Bone. Thing about Audiard, however, he doesn’t exactly rush to make his next feature, which means a lot of time waiting for whatever it is he’ll do next. Thankfully, that wait is over.
Next up for Audiard is a film titled Erran, a film centered on a Sri-Lankan Tamil fighter who is a political refugee in France, where he works as a caretaker on an ‘unruly’ council estate in the Parisian suburbs.
The news, unfortunately, ends there. We do know filming begins on October 13 and will go through mid-December, but a cast has yet to be announced, though it would stand to assume that information will be available shortly. Also, with this kind of timeline it would seem logical to expect a Cannes premiere next year making me want to return to the Croisette even more after missing the festival this year. [Cineuropa via The Playlist]
