EXCLUSIVE: France’s Pyramide International has boosted its 2026 slate by the acquisition of sales rights to Christophe Honore’s 1970s-set family drama Orange-Flavoured Wedding and Emmanuel Mouret’s murder mystery Dr Albertini’s Office, both set to start shooting in February 2026.
Honore will reteam with longtime producer Les Films Pelleas, also known for Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall and Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident, for his 17th feature. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Adèle Exarchopoulos, Vincent Lacoste, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Paul Kircher and Malou Khebizi.
The autobiographical feature centres on a family whose seven children are estranged from their father. Amid the wedding of the family’s youngest son, they are forced to confront childhood wounds and their complicated relationships with each other.
Ad Vitam has French theatrical rights.
The film brings together the filmmaker, producer and Pyramide’s international sales arm after Honore’s 2022 film Winter Boy, which also starred Kircher in his breakout role.
Pyramide CEO Eric Lagesse described the film as “a magnificent project, carried by a brilliant, young and talented cast” and “a family film which, through the lens of the wedding of its youngest child, stirs up universal emotions”.
Crime comedy
Mouret, fresh off his crowd-pleasing Three Friends, which premiered in competition at Venice in 2024, reteams with that film’s producer Moby Dick Films for Dr Albertini’s Office (working title). Laure Calamy stars as a pathologically jealous woman who starts psychotherapy as she begins a relationship with a new partner, played by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi. Louis-Do de Lencquesaing co-stars as the titular Dr Albertini.
The film’s producer Frédéric Niedermayer told Screen: “After 20 years of collaboration with Emmanuel Mouret, I am very happy and excited to see him explore a new genre, the crime comedy, while remaining entirely true to himself.”
Pyramide’s Lagesse added: “For the past 10 years, Emmanuel Mouret has become one of the most essential French filmmakers, both in France and internationally.”
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