Paris-based WTFilms has taken world sales rights on French director Jérôme Dassier’s spy thriller Let Her Kill You starring Italian star Asia Argento and award-winning French actress Jeanne Balibar.
Taking inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious and Sydney Pollack’s Three Days Of The Condor, it revolves around a mysterious espionage case.
Argento stars as a woman whose former life as a secret agent catches up with her when she discovers her isolated chalet home in the mountains of Switzerland is under surveillance and has been bugged. As Argento tries to get to the bottom of what is going on and stay alive, a woman (Balibar) from her past resurfaces but her intentions are not clear.
The film was shot in a specially built chalet in St Moritz in the spring of 2021. Argento underwent intense physical preparation for the role which involves a number of outdoor scenes in the middle of winter and at night. WTFilms has released first look image of the actress in the role.
The actress is in Berlin this week for the world premiere of her father’s latest film Dark Glasses in which she features in the cast.
“The film is with Asia almost alone on screen. The director wanted to put her in a new position as a strong woman, a desire to give an image of Asia that we’re not used to seeing,” comments the film’s French producer Alain Benguigui.
Let Her Kill You is Dassier’s first feature after a decade of working as an assistant director on a raft of films including Berlinale 2020 Golden Bear contender My Little Sister, Barbet Schroeder’s Amnesia and Christopher Doyle’s Warsaw Dark.
Alain Benguigui at Paris-based Sombrero films and Ruth Waldburger at Zurich-based Vega Film are producers on the French-Swiss co-production.
”The film is with Asia almost alone on screen. The director wanted to put her in a new position as a strong woman, a desire to give an image of Asia that we’re not used to seeing,” comments Alain Benguigui.
Alba Films has taken French rights for the film and will release it theatrically in France on November 16, 2022.
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