email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

PRODUCTION UK / France

Julie Delpy set for My Zoe

by 

- Acclaimed actress’ new directorial venture to star herself, Daniel Brühl and Gemma Arterton

Julie Delpy set for My Zoe
Actress-director Julie Delpy

Julie Delpy will commence principal photography next spring in the UK on her new directorial venture My Zoe [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Julie Delpy
film profile
]
. Written by Delpy, the London-set film will be a drama about the lengths to which a mother’s love goes for her child. Isabelle is a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage and is raising her only daughter Zoe in conjunction with her ex-husband James. Zoe means everything to her mother, but when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle takes matters into her own hands. Delpy will play Isabelle herself while Daniel Brühl and Gemma Arterton play a couple from Moscow who she seeks help from. As an actress, Delpy’s last release was Todd Solondz’s Wiener-Dog (2016) while Arterton was the lead in Lone Scherfig’s 2016 BFI London Film Festival crowd-pleaser Their Finest [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Lone Scherfig
film profile
]
. Brühl was last seen in summer blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. Israeli actor Lior Ashkenazi (Big Bad Wolves) will play Isabelle’s boyfriend.

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

Delpy said, “I started thinking and taking notes about this film over 20 years ago. It first came to my mind discussing with Krzysztof Kieslowski about parenting, love and fate. The film is about the unconditional love you feel as a parent. It was a very profound process to write it. I gave it all the truth I had and I hope it resonates with others.”

Gabrielle Tana (Philomena [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Stephen Frears
film profile
]
) is producing for the UK’s Baby Cow Films alongside the Untouchable [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
pair Hubert Caillard and Dominique Boutonnat for France’s Electrik Films. The UK’s Protagonist Pictures is handling international sales and will present the project at Berlin’s European Film Market in February.

As an actress, Delpy has had a long, storied and award-winning career, best known for her collaborations with Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater on the Before series and with Kieslowski on the Three Colour films. As a director, she made her feature debut with Looking for Jimmy (2002), followed by 2 Days in Paris [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Christophe Mazodier
interview: Julie Delpy
film profile
]
(2007) that was nominated for Delpy’s screenplay at the César Awards and the Audience Award at the European Film Awards, and won the Audience Award at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and the Coup de Coeur at the Mons International Festival of Love Films. The Countess [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Anna Maria Mühe
film profile
]
(2009) was nominated for Best Film at Sitges and won Best Director at the Cabourg Romantic Film Festival. Skylab [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
(2011) won the Special Prize of the Jury at San Sebastián and the directing award at Newport Beach. 2 Days in New York [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
(2012) won Best Woman Storyteller at the Women Film Critics Circle Awards. Her last film as director was Lolo [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Julie Delpy, Dany Boon
film profile
]
(2015).

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

Did you enjoy reading this article? Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive more stories like this directly in your inbox.

Privacy Policy