Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel and Pierre Niney at Asghar Farhadi: first images
The Iranian director returns to competition at Cannes with Parallel Stories, a drama that revisits Kieślowski’s The Decalogue.
Unwanted in Iran, Asghar Farhadi once again set up his cameras in France, 13 years later The Pastfor his new feature film, Side stories. A film with an XXL cast that we will find in competition for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival next May and of which we are discovering the first photos.
The director ofA separation brought together Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa (also with the participation of Catherine Deneuve) for this drama inspired by The Decaloguethe series of TV films signed by the great Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski and released between 1989 and 1990. Precisely the sixth chapter, associated with lust, which recounted the fascination of a man for an unknown woman living opposite his home.
A plot that we therefore find in the synopsis ofSide stories : “In search of inspiration for her new novel, Sylvie spies on her neighbors across the street. When she hires young Adam to help her in her daily life, she is unaware that he will turn her life and her work upside down, until the fiction she had imagined exceeds the reality of all of them.”
Isabelle Huppert plays the main role of the writer and Adam Bessa (The Ghosts) that of the young man. Vincent Cassel and Pierre Niney play two brothers.
Side stories will be released in cinemas in May (via Memento), the day of its presentation at the Cannes Film Festival, the date of which has yet to be determined.
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