"Anatomy of Autumn" producer Marie-Gange Luciani sets up next project

Even with the Oscars, the Palme d'Or and six Cesar awards ceremony, Justine Triet's "Autumn Anatomy", French producer Marie-Gang Luciani had no rest. The Paris-based producer, who runs Les Films de Pierre, is still working to work with emerging filmmakers and new immigrants, such as Laura Wandel, whose second work, Adam's Cake, opens this year's Cannes Critics Week. She also has a relationship with mature Auteurs, such as Robin Campillo, who won the Cannes 2017 Jury Award for "BPM (beats per minute)" and opened the director's "Enzo" in this year's "Enzo" who ended in his close friend Laurent Cantet (Palme d'Berme d'Ol Palme d'Ol the Class'the Class', which he ended after his close friend Laurent Cantet.

In addition to developing Triet's follow-up "Autumn Anatomy" (will at least shoot with some major stars in English), Luciani is looking forward to a busy 2026 year.

She will be conducting the first sexually brave thriller "Stranger by the Lake" with Cannes Awards director Alain Guiraudie. Guiraudie is adapting Robert Merle's "L'Ile", an adventure novel inspired by the true story of the 1789 HMS Bounty Mutineers' bad fate.

"The book was released in the 1970s, and it was a big blow. It was a fictional account of the true story of the Polynesian bounty rebels," Luciani said, adding that she hoped to shoot the film in Polynesia next year.

"It will be an adventure film, probably Guiraudie's most ambitious project to date, and one of his most political, weird feelings," Luciani said. "It's a story about land allocation and how we can build democracy together, so it will resonate in time."

Guiraudie's last film, Miséricorde, was aired at the Cannes premiere in 2024 and was shortlisted by the French Oscar Council.

Luciani also collaborated with Canadian producer Nancy Grant to produce Monia Chokri's next film, which will mark the first film of the cast-turned-director and perform with local actors.

Chokri's sexy romantic comedy "The Nature of Love" played at Cannes' Un Certain Regard and won the Cesar Award for best foreign film, beating Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" in 2024. Chokri is at Cannes with two films in which she stars, Alice Douard's "Des preuves d'amour," playing at Critics' Week, and Anna Cazenave Cambert's "Love Me Tender" at Un Certain

Luciani is also interested in nonfiction. She is working with Envie detempeite Prods. The documentary Une Vie Supteste, directed by Jean-Gabriel Pereyot, follows the life of Michèle Firk, a pioneering French journalist, film critic and anti-colonial activist who rose in the 1960s and 1970s.

Luciani said Firk wanted to be a film producer, but at the time, she was a woman "not allowing her to fulfill her dream." As a result, she joined the army and then headed to South America, "being politically involved, that she committed suicide at 30 because the police were going to arrest her and she didn't want to be tortured to give up the message," Luciani said. The documentary was made for Arte and will be based on Firk's personal diary and will be the same as Pereyot's previous documentary "Fragments". It will tell the story of two famous French actors.

Finally, Luciani teamed up with Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz to debut in "Le Triangle d'Or", which will play Mallory Wanecque ("Beating Hearts"). Inspired by Rosselet-Ruiz's life, the film will revolve around an unlikely connection between a young cleaner lady and a Saudi lady who worked at the 16th Arnddissement in Paris.

"Film producer Helene is also a cleaner who is a Saudi woman studying in La Fémis," Luciani said. "It's a beautiful story because it does reflect the female condition, between the young clean lady trapped in a very unstable social situation in a young clean lady who is playing free games because she's rich but trapped in the cultural context of her country to prevent her from being truly free." The project has attracted top partners, including the MK2 movie and AD Vitam, for international sales and French distribution, respectively.

Luciani said she likes to continue making her special debut even though funding for them is a “long-distance race”. It makes me think we don't have an easy thing, but I have to help these young men and women so that I can see a fresh perspective and understand how they view the world.

Luciani said that after the success of "Autumn Anatomy", she tried to keep her project on a manageable scale because she wanted to "maintain a certain level of craft".

"I want to be able to invest in movies. The way I make it is to keep intimate with the directors I work with and maintain a certain degree of freedom because the more you produce, the more you grow the company and the more you have to produce to keep your company and employees moving forward."

She said De Pierre has reached a pace in the past three years, making two movies a year instead of one. "Next year, I'm planning three," she said.