The following movie from French director Mia Hansen-Løve (Issues to Come, One High quality Morning) shall be a interval drama on the lifetime of ground-breaking English author and activist Mary Wollstonecraft.
Hansen-Løve is writing and directing If Love Ought to Die on the visionary 18th-century author, thought of one of many founder philosophers of feminism. Filming is deliberate to set to happen within the U.Okay., France, Scandinavia and Portugal, beginning in 2025.
“My ambition is to seize with as a lot acuity and reality as attainable this pivotal period and the lifetime of a girl that cinema has by no means earlier than checked out,” Hansen-Løve mentioned in a press release. “Iconic in England, Mary Wollstonecraft shouldn’t be identified in France. That fits me: making a movie a few determine who is simply too predictable, or too well-known, has by no means me. I’m interested in characters engaged in a quest, devoid of certainties. The souls of artists, little question, however I’m impressed by essentially the most fragile, essentially the most susceptible amongst them.”
Arthouse streamer Mubi is backing the manufacturing, alongside Arte France Cinéma with Mubi’s gross sales arm The Match Manufacturing unit dealing with worldwide gross sales. Co-producers embody Caspian Movies (Georgie Paget and Thembisa Cochrane), Les Movies Pelléas (David Thion and Philippe Martin), Our Movies (Lorenzo Mieli), and Norway’s Mer Movie.
If Love Ought to Die follows on Hansen-Løve’s One High quality Morning (2022), an autobiographically-flavored drama starring Léa Seydoux, and 2021’s Bergman Island starring Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps. Mubi launched One High quality Morning within the U.Okay. and Eire. In a press release, the corporate mentioned it was “honored to be working with Mia once more.”