03/10/2002 - April will see the French director start a new, vaguely Hitchcockian drama about a chance encounter between a man and a woman that stars Sandrine Bonnaire and Fabrice Lucchini

Patrice Leconte is about to begin work on a new film entitled Confidences trop intimes (Very Intimate Confessions). His last film, L’Homme du Train, starring an unlikely duo of actors like Jean Rochefort and Johnny Halliday, was screened in competition at the 59th Venice Film Festival to huge critical acclaim. In an interview with “Variety”, Leconte revealed that the new film, that he describes as a Hitchcock-style comedy, will be produced by StudioCanal and Alain Sarde with a Euros 6.1million budget and will star Sandrine Bonnaire (last seen in Brian De Palma’s Femme Fatale) and Fabrice Luchini, noted for his masterful portrayal of Beaumarchais in Edouard Molinaro’s L’insolente.
Confidences trop intimes follows on Leconte’s flair for telling stories about unusual or chance encounters between people. Written by Jérôme Tonnerre, it is the story of a young woman who mistakenly believes that the man she is telling all her innermost secrets too is really a psychoanalyst. He does not have the courage to tell her that he is not a doctor and the situation degenerates. The film is scheduled to go into production on location in Paris in April 2003 with a cast that also includes Michèle Laroque (Le placard – The Closet) and Michel Duchaussoy (Love that never dies).

(Translated from Italian)