Kore-Eda unveils the story of her upcoming film, "La vérité", shot in Paris with Deneuve, Binoche and Sagnier

"I want to address the question of the actor's game, what is playing a role: where are the feelings of the actress when she plays, when she cries", he told a dozen journalists in Tokyo in late June. He says he "reworked since 2011 a scenario that he began to write 15 years ago."

"All the actors are not chosen, I did not really want to talk about it now, but as partly inaccurate information came out, I thought it better to say a few words myself," explained the laureate of the Palme d'Or at the last Cannes Film Festival

Japanese film or French film?

This next film, a Franco-Japanese co-production made essentially with a French team, will be called " The truth". Expected on the screens in 2019, he will tell the difficult reunion of an icon of the cinema (Catherine Deneuve) with his daughter (Juliette Binoche) accompanied by her husband (Ethan Hawke) and their child.

"It's a challenge to shoot in France, I do not know the language or culture, but I do not work saying 'I'm doing a French film' simply because when I make a film in Japan I do not tell myself 'I'm making a Japanese film' "

" I made the concrete proposal to Catherine Deneuve two years ago, we had met before on various occasions, including during the festival of the French film in Tokyo, we had said 'it would be nice to work together' but it was a bit of the proposals in the air, until the scenario is there, and two years ago, I really offered him. "

The French star says she is delighted to work with the Japanese director, evoking "a scenario full of humor, charm and cruelty at once," according to statements reported by the team of Mr. Kore-eda.

"Attentive to their career"

Juliette Binoche, she was already in the project. "She came to Japan in 2011, we went together to Kyoto and that's when we seriously thought about a movie, it was she who introduced me to French production companies, and other contacts ". As for Ludivine Sagnier, she came to see him several times when he presented his films in France.

"The French actresses have the particularity that they manage their own careers.They do what Japanese actresses do not do, when they want to work with an actor, a director in particular, they go on their own. to see and tell him, they are very attentive to their career, in the good sense of the word, and get busy to lead in the direction they want, I like that. "

      

"At Work!"

Kore-eda has already conducted auditions in March "to see how it was between us, with an interpreter in the middle". With the adults he is now confident, but with the children, "I still have not figured out how to do it, it is currently my main concern for this film.Would I proceed as with Japanese children, I do not know, "he said. At the end of June, Kore-eda was still looking for a 6/7 year old girl to play Catherine Deneuve's granddaughter.

The presence of American actor Ethan Hawke alongside the French women's trio is also confirmed. "I like him, I went to see him in New York after the Cannes Film Festival and we talked about the film in a concrete way and I think he can help me on how to lead the children."

Kore-eda is already widely appreciated in France for her films "Nobody knows" ("Daremo shiranai"), "Like father, like son" ("Soshite chichi ni naru") and now "A family affair" ("Manbiki kazoku ") Palme d'Or 2018 in Cannes. "At work!", He concludes.