Palme d’Or-winning Italian director Nanni Moretti (The Son’s Room, We Have a Pope) is teaming up with French star Louis Garrel (Little Women, The Dreamers) and Italian actress Jasmine Trinca (The Gunman) for his new film, the romantic drama Succederà questa notte (It Will Happen Tonight).
The feature, loosely based on the short story collection Hungry Heart (Lev Raev) by Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo, is set to begin shooting in Spain and Italy this fall. Moretti adapted Nevo’s novel Three Floors Up as the 2021 film Three Floors.
Trinca made her feature debut in Moretti’s The Son’s Room in 2001, but this will be their first collaboration since The Caiman in 2006. The Italian actress has been splitting her time between features, including Léa Todorov’s Maria Montessori and Ildikó Enyedi’s The Story of My Wife (2021), and TV work, appearing in acclaimed Italian series La Storia and The Art of Joy (both 2024).
Succederà questa notte will be Moretti’s first collaboration with Garrel. The French actor is coming off recent French blockbusters The Three Musketeers, parts 1 and 2, and Quentin Dupieux’s 2024 Cannes festival opener The Second Act. The Italian auteur has been looking for a project to work on with Garrel for several years now. In 2023, the pair staged a series of viral Instagram skits to promote the Garrel-directed crime comedy The Innocent, which screened at Moretti’s Nuovo Sacher cinema in Rome.
The film’s cast includes Angela Finocchiaro, Elena Lietti, Antonio De Matteo, Andrea Lattanzi, Hippolyte Girardot, Pietro Ragusa, and Paolo Sassanelli. Moretti, who often appears in his own films, will have a cameo.
Moretti adapted Nevo’s short story collection together with co-screenwriters Federica Pontremoli and Valia Santella, intertwining the book’s separate stories about the various bonds — familial, political, social and romantic — that both restrict and liberate, into a single narrative. Sacher Film and Fandango are producing in collaboration with Rai Cinema.
Italian daily Il Messaggero first broke the news of Moretti’s new film.
