Gaumont and Egerie Productions have introduced they’re teaming with Prime Video on heartwarming French-language drama My Mom, God, And Sylvie Vartan (Ma Mère, Dieu, Et Sylvie Vartan), which is the platform’s first French-language characteristic destined for a theatrical launch.
The image is customized from the autobiographical novel of French radio and TV presenter Roland Perez and is impressed by his strong-minded Sephardic Jewish mom’s dedication that he would stay a full life after he was born with a clubfoot.
Her self-sacrifice and a consuming ardour for the music of widespread singer Sylvie Vartan enabled her son to attain his goals regardless of his distinction.
Canadian director and screenwriter Ken Scott is connected to direct and likewise wrote the screenplay, adaptation and dialogue.
Filming will happen in Paris between September and November 2023
Leïla Bekhti (All Your Faces, The Eddy) and Jonathan Cohen (Daaaaaali!, Astérix and Obélix: The Center Kingdom) lead the solid.
Vartan, whose voice accompanies the boy’s childhood, additionally makes an look.
Additional solid members embrace Naïm Naji, Milo Machado Graner, Lionel Dray, Joséphine Japy, Jeanne Balibar and Anne Le Ny.
The movie is produced by Gaumont CEO Sidonie Dumas and Sophie Tepper at Egerie Productions (Tough Outdated Canines) , in co-production with Prime Video and Christal Movies Productions Inc (Canada).
Gaumont will launch the movie theatrically in France and holds all distribution rights in France and internationally (besides Canada).
“That is our first French theatrical manufacturing, and the truth that it’s being made below the watchful eye of Ken Scott bringing collectively Leila Bekhti and Jonathan Cohen couldn’t have come at a greater time,” stated Thomas Dubois, Head of Originals Amazon Studios, Prime Video, France.
“We’re delighted to have the ability to innovate alongside Gaumont, a key associate for us, on a movie whose power and significance of storytelling immediately seduced us and pushed us to suppose outdoors the field.”
France’s oldest movie firm Gaumont has been working throughout all platforms for greater than decade now with hit sequence equivalent to Narcos and Lupin and up to date theatrical characteristic productions together with comedy For Higher and For Worst starring Fabrice Lucchini and Stéphane Brizé’s Venice 2023 Golden Lion contender Out Of Season.
“Working with Ken Scott on this adaptation of Roland Perez’s poignant novel is a novel alternative. His expertise for telling humorous and transferring tales is plain,” stated Gaumont’s Dumas.
“We’re thrilled to collaborate with Egérie Productions and Prime Video to carry to mild this touching story about household and distinction. This venture embodies the spirit of innovation and creativity that defines Gaumont, and we are able to’t wait to see this lovely story come to life”.
