Hafsia Herzi (César for the best actress 2025), Benoît Magimel, Monica Bellucci, Bastien Bouillon, Paul Hamy … This is the beautiful casting of the 3rd feature film by Léa Mysius (“Ava”, “The 5 Devils”): the filmmaker adapts the Night Roman Histoires.
What a great year for Hafsia Herzi! César for best actress at the start of the year (for Stéphane Demoustier's Borgo film); Rewarded in Cannes for her 3rd achievement (the latest, in official competition) … And here she is announced in one of the most exciting French castings of the next months!
Hafsia Herzi will hold one of the main roles of the adaptation of the novel Histoires de la Nuit by Laurent Mauvignier, alongside Benoît Magimel, Monica Bellucci, Bastien Bouillon, Paul Hamy. The cast was announced in Le Film Français magazine during the Cannes Film Festival.
The film presented as a closed door will be staged by Léa Mysius, of which it will be the third feature film after Ava (2017) and the five devils (2022). Entry into shooting scheduled for the start of the school year in September.
A new adaptation of a novel by Laurent Mauvignier
The pitch of night stories presents itself: there is almost nothing left at the downplace: a town and some hamlets, including the one occupied Bergogne, his wife Marion and their daughter Ida, as well as a neighbor, Christine, an artist installed here for years. We activate, we are preparing for Marion's birthday, which we are going to celebrate the forty years. But as the party is looming, strangers prowl around the hamlet …
Author Laurent Mauvignier has already been adapted several times to the cinema (Continue by Joachim Lafosse, men of Lucas Belvaux).
