Roschdy Zem in Yves Montand and Marina Foïs in Simone Signoret in Cannes
Freshly added to the Cannes Classics selection, the biopic “me who loved you” reveals the first images of the film devoted to the legendary couple of French cinema.
Just a few days before the opening of the Cannes Film Festivala highly anticipated film is made a place in the selection Cannes Classics.
Sign Diane Kurys,, I who loved you Traces the story of a legendary couple of the seventh art: Yves Montand and Simone Signoret. It is Marina Foïs And Roschdy Zem which will embody the title roles of this biopic.
Synopsis: “She loved her more than anything, he loved her more than all the others. Simone Signoret and Yves Montand were the most famous couple of their time. Haunted by her husband’s connection to Marilyn Monroe and bruised by all those who followed, Signoret has always refused the role of victim. What they knew is that they would never leave each other”.
While films on the Signoret tandem – Montand have multiplied in recent years without much success, it was ultimately Diane Kurys who was entrusted with the orders of this ambitious biography. For her part, the French director is not at her first biopic: in 2008, she was at the origin of Saganfilm in which she tells the life of this woman of letters who knew the success as soon as her first novel “Hello sadness”. Note that Françoise Sagan chaired the Cannes festival jury in 1979.
Seven years after his last film, My mother is crazy – Staging a surprising duo Vianney – Ardant -, the filmmaker is back with an exceptional project that everyone was looking forward to. Diane Kurys stages the story of this star couple marked by eternal passion and commitment. A legendary duo celebrated in a new biopic. The title of this feature film, I who loved youis taken from the song “Dead leaves” written by Jacques Prévert and sung in 1946 by Yves Montand.
The two lovers met in 1949 and two years later, they married. If their union lasted until Simone Signoret’s death in 1985, their passionate relationship will be tarnished by the actor’s infidelities – and singer – notably in the company of the Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe. Despite everything, the celebrity couple – cultural icon – will live an imperishable idyll to Father Lachaise’s cemetery in Paris where they both rest. For eternity.
After a preview at La Croisette, I who loved you will be released in theaters October 1, 2025.
