French Filmmaker Bertrand Blier Set to Debut Serial Killer Adaptation
Kristen Ashly
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French filmmaker Bertrand Blier is set to debut an adaptation of his second novel, Existe en Blanc.
Produced by Sylvie Pialat’s Les Films du Worso and Edouard Weil’s Rectangle Prods, the movie will star actress/director Maiwenn (High Tension, The Fifth Element), Benoit Poelvoorde (My Worst Nightmare, Nothing to Declare), and Anais Demoustier (Elles) as well as Gregory Gadebois (The Piano Tuner).
Published in 1998, the book is in typical Blier dark humor, much like his Buffet Froid, the 1979 film featuring Gerard Depardieu and Jean Carmet. SCOPE Pictures, a leader in Belgian film production, describes the story of Existe en Blanc:
As a very young boy, Baudouin Treuttel develops a particular passion for women’s bras, which leads him to stand swooning in front of lingerie shop windows. His family is even weirder. His father refuses to speak or listen and won’t come out of his office or his car. His mother is a beautiful, fragile woman who regularly disappears into her room. There’s also Mathilde, the fat cleaning lady of the house who teaches the precocious boy about the facts of life. Baudouin also walks around with a mysterious Belgian accent that comes out of nowhere, and he gradually starts to murder his mistresses who dare take off their bras in front of him.
Existe en Blanc will debut in Cannes this month and have Valerie Donzelli’s Margerite and Julien, another Rectangle Productions piece, as competition.
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