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The story follows Cécile , a young woman spending the summer in a villa in the south of France with her widowed father Raymond and his latest love interest, Elsa . Theirs is a lived-in compatibility—a world of ease and languor. But all that soon changes with the arrival of Anne , an old friend of Raymond and Cécile’s mother. Anne’s presence and deep connection to the past alters the villa’s mood.
Principal photography got underway last Friday in Cassis in the south of France. Sagan’s son, Denis Westhoff, is among exec producers. McInerny stars in the lead following her critically-acclaimed performance in the Sundance and Deauville Film Festival winner, which was also nominated for four 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Breakthrough Performance.
The film is produced by Babe Nation Films’ Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott , Elevation Pictures’ Noah Segal and Christina Piovesan , Wolfgang Mueller and Benito Mueller of Barry Films and Cinenovo’s Julie Viez (Executive producers are Fabien Westerhoff for Constellation Productions, Suzanne Court, and Westhoff.