Director Rebecca Zlotowski and star Jodie Foster unveiled their collaboration Vie Privée (A Non-public Life) out of competitors right here in Cannes on Tuesday night, greeted by a 10-minute ovation.
Foster performs famend psychiatrist Lilian Steiner within the French-language thriller. When Lilian learns of the loss of life of one in all her sufferers, she is deeply troubled. Satisfied that it was homicide, she decides to analyze.
Additionally starring are Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira, Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Lacoste and Luana Bajrami.
Sony Photos Classics acquired North America and Latin America rights in February on the movie that Zlotowski additionally co-wrote. Goodfellas accomplished a raft of worldwide offers earlier this 12 months. Advert Vitam has French distribution with a launch deliberate later in 2025.
That is Zlotowski’s sixth movie, and her second within the Cannes Official Choice as director after 2013’s Un Sure Regard title Grand Central.
Foster instructed the competition of assembly with Zlotowski, “We reviewed the entire movie, phrase for phrase, for six or seven hours straight. I knew then that Rebecca was somebody who took her work very critically; that she had particular concepts for each side of the movie.”
Foster has had a number of movies in Cannes as director or actress. They embody Cash Monster (2016), The Beaver (2011), Bugsy Malone (1976), Taxi Driver (1976) and Alice Doesn’t Dwell Right here Anymore (1975).
Fluent in French, Foster has appeared in a handful of Gallic productions throughout her profession, however this marks her first French-language position in 20 years after Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s wartime romance A Very Lengthy Engagement in 2005.
Vie Privée is produced by Frédéric Jouve at Les Movies Velvet and co-produced by France 3 Cinéma.