《Violette》(Violette, temporary translation) first trailer and poster released, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Leila Bekti adapted the best-selling novel

In the cemetery of a small town in Burgundy, Violet Toussaint listens to people talking about love, loss and life every day.Laila Becetti plays the cemetery caretaker in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's new film - Violette - (tentative translation), Studiocanal has just released the first trailer and poster.

Violet is used to observing and is willing to listen.The eccentric staff and visitors at the cemetery will tell her about their experiences.

Her peaceful life is shattered when a local police chief arrives at her door with an unusual request.As the two get closer, she realizes that if she wants to give life and love another chance, she must uncover long-buried secrets from her past.The film is adapted from Valerie Perrin's international best-selling novel - Fresh Water for Flowers / Changer l'eau des fleurs (tentative translation), and was also released in France under the French title of the novel.

Bekti is a French-Algerian actor who has previously appeared in All That Glitters, Beirut, Midnight Sun and The Eddy.The film also stars Matthias Schoenaerts, Melville Pépo, Anouk Greenberg, Sergio Castellito, Alban Lenoir and Elodie Bartar Gauthier.

Genet co-wrote the screenplay with Guillaume Laurent.The list of producers includes Thibaut Gast, Genet, Matthias Weber, Nicola Serra and Carlo Deli Esposti.

This is Genet's new feature film after Bigbug.His directorial works include Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Alien: Resurrection, Amélie, A Very Long Engagement, Micmacs and The Young and ProdigiousT. S. Spivet).

《Violette》(Violette, temporary translation) will be released in France on December 9, 2026, and theater distribution in other regions will begin in early 2027.

Alex Billington, author of FirstShowing, commented positively on the pilot trailer and believed that the new film is closer to Amélie and different from Genet's previous darker and weird science fiction works.The character in the trailer said: “Only by reconciling with death can we reconcile with life.”