EXCLUSIVE: Shooting will kick off in June for All The Little Live Things (La Vie Obstinée) starring Benoît Magimel, Léa Drucker and Melanie Thierry, the next feature from French filmmaker Carine Tardieu.
Paris-based Indie Sales has acquired international sales rights and will launch the project in Cannes. Tardieu’s previous feature The Ties That Bind Us won best film at this year’s Cesar awards.
All The Little Live Things is based on the 1967 American novel of the same title by American author and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner. It is set in the 1970s and stars Magimel and Drucker as a couple who retreat to the Normandy countryside after losing their 25-year-old son in a surfing accident. There, they meet a single mother (Thierry) and a free-spirited young man (Félix Vannoorenberghe) who force them to confront their pain and embrace life again.
Tardieu reteams with The Ties That Bind Us producer Karé Productions for her sixth feature. Diaphana will release the film in France.
The Ties That Bind Us premiered in Venice’s Horizons section in 2024 and sold nearly 800,000 tickets at the French box office, before winning three Cesar awards at the 2026 ceremony for film, adapted screenplay and supporting actress for Vimala Pons. Drucker, who also won a 2026 Cesar for best actress in Case 137, will be seen alongside Thierry in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s upcoming Cannes Competition title A Woman’s Life.
Nicolas Eschbach, CEO and co-founder at Indie Sales, said: “We are truly delighted to reunite with Karé Productions, and to embark for the first time on a collaboration with the gifted Carine Tardieu. This luminous, finely wrought drama, elevated by a stunning ensemble cast, unfolds with power and emotional intensity.”
Indie Sales will also launch sales at the Cannes market on Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida? sequel The Missing Part, with both films due to be completed by spring 2027.
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