'Violette': First teaser for Jean-Pierre Jeunet's take on Valérie Perrin's bestseller
StudioCanal has released the first teaser for the new film from the director of 'Amélie'. Leïla Bekhti plays a cemetery keeper in Burgundy. The film opens in Germany in May 2027.
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StudioCanal has released a first teaser for 'Violette', the new film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet ('Amélie'). It is based on Valérie Perrin's novel 'Changer l'eau des fleurs' ('Fresh Water for Flowers'), adapted for the screen by Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant.
Leïla Bekhti plays Violette Toussaint, who looks after a cemetery in a small Burgundy town and listens to the grieving. When a police officer arrives wanting to scatter his mother's ashes on the grave of a man Violette loved, she is forced to confront long-buried memories. Matthias Schoenaerts, Melvil Poupaud, Anouk Grinberg, Sergio Castellitto and Alban Lenoir also star.
The film is part of the Rome Film Fest program. It opens in France on Dec. 9, 2026, under the title 'Changer l'eau des fleurs', according to AlloCiné, and in Germany on May 6, 2027, according to kino.de, under the title 'Violette oder frisches Wasser für die Blumen'.