After winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival with

L'Evénement

and the César for Best Female Hope for her actress Anamaria Vartolomei, French director Audrey Diwan is to direct her third film, and her first in English.

It will still be an adaptation of a literary classic, but not just any classic since it will bring

Emmanuelle

,

the famous erotic novel by Emmanuelle Arsan from 1967, to the big screen.

Everyone remembers the cult film, or nanar it depends, directed by Just Jaeckin with Sylvia Kristel in 1974, which had given rise to ten sequels and derivatives.

To embody the new Emmanuelle, Audrey Diwan has chosen Léa Seydoux, whom spectators will first find in

Les Crimes du futur

presented at the Cannes Film Festival and in theaters on May 25.

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