**EXCLUSIVE:**Cannes habitué Arnaud Desplechin is not at the festival this year but his upcoming English-language production The Thing That Hurts is making a big splash at the market with Gravel Lake Entertainment. Featuring Alfre Woodard, J.K. Simmons, Jason Schwartzman, André Holland, Noémie Merlant, Golshifteh Farahani, Teddie Allen, and Felicity Jones in the cast, the picture is Desplechin’s starriest yet.
It revolves around the clients of a renowned American psychoanalyst who descend on Paris on the news of her death, causing unexpected connections and long-buried truths to come to the surface as their stories intertwine. The film marks a departure for the the director on a number of fronts, with Daya Fernandez, Amaury Nolasco and Alois Rubenbauer at Puerto Rico-based 3SIX9 Studios producing his work for the first time, alongside French producer Charles Gillibert at CG Cinema, who produced his penultimate featureFilmlovers!, Atilla Yücer at Turkey’s Alaz Film and Belgium’s Wrong Men. Written by Kamen Velkovsky and Desplechin, the film is executive produced by Wes Anderson and financed by Silver Screen Global. Deadline caught up with Desplechin the film launches in the market in Cannes.
Source: deadline.com