Natalia Beristáin Set to Adapt Annie Ernaux’s ‘The Use of Photography’

Leading Mexican manufacturing firm Woo Films has acquired the rights to Nobel Prize laureate Annie Ernaux’s “The Use of Photography,” with “The Eternal Feminine” director Natalia Beristáin set to direct.

The 2005 novel, co-written by Ernaux and photographer Marc Marie, chronicles the duo’s love story all through the creator’s breast most cancers remedy. Production particulars and casting for the movie will probably be introduced within the coming months.

Woo Film producer Mario Savino stated Ernaux’s work “presents a completely frank, fearless account of the human experience.” “Her ability to transform the ephemeral and intimate into something universal makes ‘The Use of Photography’ an extraordinarily cinematic work. It’s a profound meditation on what it means to hold onto fleeting moments. We are honored to bring this powerful story to the screen,” he added. 

A meditation on writing, love and need, “The Use of Photography” is extremely considered a defining work within the French author’s vastly lauded profession. The novel represents Ernaux’s first main work to include visible imagery as a central narrative component, main immediately to what’s thought of by many to be her most important novel, “The Years.”

Other movie variations of the French creator’s work embrace Audrey Diwan’s “Happening” and Patrick Mario Bernard and Pierre Trividic’s “The Other One.” In 2022, Ernaux herself co-directed “The Super 8 Years” alongside her son David Ernaux-Briot, gathering household dwelling movies between 1972 and 1981 to replicate on themes current in her six-decade-long physique of labor.

Mexico City-born Beristáin established herself as a voice to observe in Latin America over the past decade, with movies premiering at main festivals resembling Venice, Cannes and San Sebastian, successful the Spanish Cooperation Award for “Noise” on the Basque competition. All three of her characteristic movies thus far have earned their leads an Ariel Award nomination for Best Actress, with Adriana Roel successful for “She Doesn’t Want to Sleep Alone,” Karina Gidi for “The Eternal Feminine” and Julieta Egurrola touchdown a nomination for “Noise.” 

The 2022 drama “Noise,” chronicling a girl’s seek for her lacking daughter and the bond she types with these whose lives have additionally been destroyed by violence, turned Netflix’s most-watched non-English language movie globally on its premiere. Beristáin has additionally directed acclaimed tv sequence for Apple TV+, Netflix and Amazon Prime

“In times as turbulent as those we are living through globally, few things feel as hopeful to me as the narrative of Ernaux and Marie,” stated Beristáin. “Their story, and the way they tell it, embodies the timeless myth of love transcending death. She is navigating cancer, he has just severed all ties with his former life. They find each other in that particular moment of existence and fall in love. To translate this beautiful, quotidian, yet profoundly philosophical narrative into a cinematic work is no simple undertaking. But to speak of how love redeems us is, and will always be, necessary.”

Woo Films has established itself over 20 years as one of the vital profitable impartial manufacturing firms in Mexico and Latin America, with movies premiering at Cannes, Toronto, Venice and San Sebastián, in addition to reaching each essential acclaim and business success. Titles of their roster embrace Netflix’s widespread sequence “The House of Flowers” and Rodrigo Prieto’s “Pedro Páramo.”