继承人 (2023)

Without a doubt, the star attraction amongst these new works is The Successor by Xavier Legrand, who was catapulted to international notoriety via Custody [+] (awarded the Best Director and Best First Film prize in Venice 2017, as well as four Césars in 2019, including Best Film). Starring Quebec’s Marc-André Grondin in the lead role, this second feature by the French director, which is currently being shot, will revolve around 30-year-old Ellias Barnès, the newly announced artistic director of a famous Parisian luxury fashion house. Expectations are high and he starts to experience chest pains. He’s called back to Montreal to organise his estranged father’s funeral, where he learns he might have inherited far worse than his father’s fragile heart... The film is produced by Alexandre Gavras on behalf of Parisian firm KG Productions, in co-production with Belgium’s Stenola Productions and Canada’s Metafilms. Distribution in France will be overseen by Haut et Court.