Chessex brought to big screen
by Anna Percival, Françoise Deriaz
Producers Yves Gasser (Switzerland) and Marie-Laure Reyre (France) are involved in director Francis Reusser and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière’s project – which has been in the pipeline for two years – for a film adaptation of Jacques Chessex’s novel La Trinité.
The recently-deceased Swiss author’s work seems to be a source of inspiration for Swiss directors, for Lionel Baier (Another Man [+see also:
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