Jodie Foster to Star in Rebecca Zlotowski’s Next Film (EXCLUSIVE)

Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker Jodie Foster is set to star in a French movie, “Vie Privée,” the next directorial effort of Rebecca Zlotowski.

Currently filming in France, “Vie Privée” will mark Zlotowski’s follow up to “Other People’s Children,” which competed at the Venice Film Festival in 2022.

The movie is penned by Zlotowski, Anne Berest, a well-known French novelist (“The Postcard”) and screenwriter (“Happening”), alongside Gaëlle Macé. Zlotowski and Macé previously collaborated on the script of “Grand Central.” Zlotowski’s regular producer, Frederic Jouve at Paris-based Velvet Films is producing.

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Foster, who was last seen in “True Detective: Night Country,” picks her roles very selectively. Her pairing with Zlotowski seems like an ideal match as they share a similar sensibility and are both interested in dramas portraying multi-faceted characters, many of which are female protagonists.

Besides “Other People’s Children,” Zlotowski is best known for directing “Une fille facile,” “Grand Central” with Lea Seydoux, and “Planetarium” with Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp.

“Vie Privée” isn’t Foster’s first French-language film. At the age of 15, she starred in a small film called “Moi, fleur bleue.” In fact, Foster is notoriously perfectly fluent in French. On several occasions, she paid tribute to her mother who was a francophile and initiated her to New Wave cinema. Foster has even cited “Les 400 coups” and “Le souffle au coeur” as the French movie that have marked her the most.

Beloved in France, Foster delivered a speech at the celebration for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Paris in August, alongside France’s President Emmanuel Macron. She also presided over the Cesar Awards in 2011 and received an Honorary Palme at Cannes in 2011.