Suite fran%C3%A7aise (film)

Suite Franaise is a 2015 romantic World War II drama film directed by Saul Dibb and cowritten with Matt Charman. It is based on part of Irne Nmirovskys 2004 novel of the same name. The film stars Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sam Riley, Ruth Wilson, Lambert Wilson and Margot Robbie. It centres on a romance between a French villager and a German soldier during the early years of the German occupation of France. Suite Franaise was filmed on location in France and Belgium. It was released onMarch 2015.

OnNovember 2006, Michael Fleming from Variety reported that the rights to Irne Nmirovskys novel Suite Franaise written during the Nazi occupation of France but published posthumously in 2004 had been acquired by Universal Pictures. Ronald Harwood, who wrote the script for The Pianist, was set to write the screenplay, with Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall producing the film. The following year, TF1 Droits Audiovisuels acquired the rights to the novel from publisher ditions Denol. The novel was then adapted for the screen by Saul Dibb and Matt Charman, with Dibb directing. The film was given a budget ofmillionmillion, which Mick Brown from The Daily Telegraph noted was big by European, if not American, standards.Dibb focused his adaptation on book two of Nmirovskys novel, which explores the relationships between the French women and the German soldiers who occupied their village, in particular the story of Lucile Angellier, who is waiting for news of her husband, when a German officer is billeted in her home. Of his intentions, Dibb explained in the making of the film I want to capture this strong sense of immediacy and authenticity. The action should feel that its happening now urgent, tense, spontaneous, made with no benefit of hindsight like weve discovered a time capsule. And very far from a safe, stuffy period piece. Dibb used the story of the novels discovery by Nmirovskys daughter, Denise Epstein, to bookend the film. Nmirovskys original manuscript is shown during the credits. Epstein died shortly before production began, but she read drafts of the script. ........

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