Little Girl Blue

Little Girl Blue is a 2023 biographical docudrama film written and directed by Mona Achache based on the life of her mother, the writer and set photographer Carole Achache, starring Marion Cotillard as Carole Achache and Mona Achache as herself. The film is a co-production between France and Belgium and had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival in the Special Screenings section on 21 May 2023, where it competed for the Golden Eye and was well received by critics. The film will be released theatrically in France by Tandem on 15 November 2023. Plot After the 2016 suicide of writer and set photographer Carole Achache, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, found thousands of photos, letters and audio recordings that her mother left behind. In order to better understand her mother's death and who she really was, Mona Achache asked actress Marion Cotillard to portray her mother in a docudrama investigating Carole's childhood, her relationship with her mother, the writer Monique Lange, and the abuses that Carole suffered at the hands of men such as writer Jean Genet. Cast Marion Cotillard as Carole Achache Mona Achache as herself Marie Bunel as Kathleen Evin Marie-Christine Adam as Florence Malraux Pierre Aussedat as Nikos Papatakis Jacques Boudet as Daniel Cordier Didier Flamand as Jorge Semprún Brigitte Sy as Monique Lange (voice) Àlex Brendemühl as Juan Goytisolo (voice) Jeremy Lewin as Jean-Jacques Salomon (voice) Jean Achache Tella Kpomahou Guy Donald Koukissa