21/11/2025 - Tess Barthélemy, Valérie Dréville, Victor Bonnel, Ariane Labed, Maïwène Barthélémy and Guslagie Malanda are all starring in this Windy and Moana production handled by Paradise City Sales

Shooting on Mémoire de fille, an adaptation of the novel A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux (the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022, whose works have already been successfully transposed to the big screen in the form of Happening [+see also:
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The cast features Tess Barthélemy (of the series Icon of French Cinema), Valérie Dréville (Saint Omer [+see also:
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interview: Kayije Kagame
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interview: Louise Courvoisier
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interview: Bertrand Bonello
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interview: Dominik Moll
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Written by Judith Godrèche and Tess Barthélemy, the screenplay centres on Annie Ernaux, who’s invited to sign her latest book in her childhood hometown, Rouen. While making her way to the city, she’s overcome with vertigo and finds herself plunged into memories of the summer of 1958 and her first night with a man, the shockwaves of which spread violently through her body and through the rest of her life...

Mémoire de fille is being produced by Carole Lambert for Windy Production and by Marc Missonnier for Moana Films, in co-production with France 2 Cinéma and Belgian company Umedia. Pre-purchased by Canal+, Ciné+ OCS and France Télévisions, the feature also enjoys support from the Ile-de-France and Normandy regions. Having kicked off on 20 October, the shoot will wrap on 28 November, with Belgian Joachim Philippe (Imago [+see also:
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For the record, Windy Production have just finished shooting On était des loups by François Busnel (read our article) and is overseeing post-production on Species by Marion Le Corroller (article). Moana Films, meanwhile, are fine-tuning post-production on Kyma by Romain Daudet-Jahan (article). The two firms previously produced Vanessa Filho’s Consent [+see also:
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(Translated from French)