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‘Amelie’ Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet to Direct Leila Bekhti in Drama Based on Bestseller That Sold Over Two Million Copies in France and Italy
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the French director of 'Amelie,' will direct Leïla Bekhti in the bigscreen adaptation of the bestseller 'Changer l’eau des fleurs.'
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the Oscar-nominated director of “Amelie,” will direct Leïla Bekhti in the bigscreen adaptation of Changer l’eau des fleurs, a bestselling novel by Valérie Perrin which has sold more than two million copies in France and Italy. Bekhti, whose notable credits include the Cesar-nominated “All Your Faces” and Damien Chazelle’s “The Eddy,” will play the lead role, Violette Toussaint, a beloved cemetery caretaker. His investigation begins and the links between the living and the dead come to light, and some souls thought to be dark turn out to be bright,” reads the synopsis provided by Palomar.
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