Editions Le Quartanier and the multidisciplinary production company Couronne Nord, to which we owe Until the declineby Patrice Laliberté, the first Quebec film financed and distributed by Netflix, announced that Couronne Nord had acquired the cinematographic rights to Emmanuelle Pierrot’s powerful first novel.
Published last fall in Le Quartanier, winner of the Literary Prize for college students in the spring, The version that interests no one tells the story of a young 18-year-old woman, Sacha, who leaves Montreal to go to the Yukon with her best friend, Tom. Unable to bear that Sacha lives as freely as he does in the small community of misfits, Tom orchestrates a cruel revenge.
It’s Myriam Verreault, director of Kuessipan, based on the work of Naomi Fontaine, which Couronne Nord entrusted with the adaptation of Emmanuelle Pierrot’s novel. “I am honored by the great trust that Pierrot and Le Quartanier place in us, and I am happy to be accompanied by the author and Myriam to adapt this powerful work,” declared producer Julie Groleau in a press release. .
Read our interview with Emmanuelle Pierrot