It’s been too long since we’ve seen a project from Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung. Though he can be hit and miss (his 2009 Josh Hartnett-starring “I Come With The Rain” does not come with the Playlist seal of approval), his films including the Camera D’Or and Oscar nominated “The Scent Of Green Papaya” and the Golden Lion-winning “Cyclo” are often fascinating, as is his last film, the Murakami adaptation “Norwegian Wood.”
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Six years have passed since that film was released, yet it seems that he’s spent the time since rounding up every hot French actor, as the trailer for his sixth feature “Eternity” is stacked full of them. Based on the novel “L’Elegance des veuves” by French writer Alice Ferney, the film is a period drama following three generations of women and their children in bourgeois France, beginning in the late 19th century through the two world wars.
And that cast is truly stuffed to the gills with French talent, with Audrey Tautou, Berenice Bejo, Melanie Laurent, Jeremie Renier, Irene Jacob and “Stranger By The Lake” breakout Pierre Deladonchamps all starring. Release is set for September in France, so we imagine this is a dead cert to appear at the Venice Film Festival. In the meantime, you can watch the first subtitled trailer for the film above or below.