Vanessa Paradis will star in Jean-Marc Vallee’s time-spanning love story “Cafe de Flore” in what will mark the helmer’s return to French-language filmmaking.
The film will follow two parallel stories; one of a mother and her child inflicted with Down syndrome set in the 1960s; and one set in the present day about a couple. Paradis, who is probably still better known to audiences stateside as Mrs. Johnny Depp, will play the mother in the former tale with shooting on the French-Canadian co-production to begin this summer in Montreal before moving to Paris.
Vallee is following up from his Emily Blunt-led “The Young Victoria” — which earned Oscar nods for Art Direction, Costuming and Make Up last year — a project which the director strangely brushes aside as “good practice” for “Cafe de Flore,” a script he began writing in 2007 and describes as “a continuation of ‘C.R.A.Z.Y,'” his debut effort.
Triple threat Paradis has been on a bit of an acting hiatus of late having been absent from the screen since 2005. She does, however, have two films due for release this year (“L’arnacoeur” and “Sage Femme”) and has a teaming with partner Depp on Lasse Hallström’s “My American Lover,” based on Simone de Beauvoir’s “A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters To Nelson Algren,” due to go in front of cameras sometime next year.
