Icarus Films will be guiding to market on June 23
the Distrib Films release of writer/director Lucie Borleteau’s film adaptation
of Leila Slimani’s best-selling crime thriller, The
Perfect Nanny.
The book won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2016,
was translated from French to English, and became a best seller in the United
States as well. The story, which was
based on, or should we say, “inspired by” actual events in New York City in
2012, introduces us to Myriam (Leïla Bekhti — Midnight
Sun, The Source), an attorney with two young
children who is torn between taking care of her kids and getting back to her
career.
The solution, a nanny, who comes in the form of
Louise (played by 13-time César Awards nominee Karin Viard — with wins for Little
Tickles, Summer
Things and Haut les
Coeurs! … she was nominated for Best
Actress for her performance here), who seems a little “off,” even if she is the
epitome of Mary Poppins, “practically perfect in every way.”
The Perfect Nanny is
anything but Mary Poppins, as
the film progresses sinister tones emerge.
The signs are there, but Myriam is tickled to be back in the swing of
thing and her husband, Paul (Antoine Reinartz — School
Life, Beats Per Minute), wants to keep her
happy and is willing to give Louise more than the benefit of the doubt.
Chilling, the steady “turning of the screw” brings
us to a terrifying finale that leaves us on the edge of our seats urging Myriam
and Paul to wake up before Louise’s last strings connecting her to sanity are
cut away.
The Perfect Nanny is
presented in French with English subtitles.
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