# Sony Pictures Classics Takes Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s ‘Violette’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/sony-pictures-classics-takes-jean-pierre-jeunets-violette/
- Published: 2026-11-05T17:08:13+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T17:19:45+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/11/sony-pictures-classics-jean-pierre-jeunet-violette-1237214416/
- Topics: Americas, Asia, Celebrity, Entertainment, Europe, World

## Key points

- Sony Pictures Classics acquired rights to Violette in three regions.
- The deal is its fourth film collaboration with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
- The film adapts Valérie Perrin’s bestselling novel.

## Summary

New coverage adds that Sony Pictures Classics negotiated the US, Latin American and Southeast Asian rights deal with StudioCanal, and quotes director Jean-Pierre Jeunet saying author Valérie Perrin described his adaptation as painting the novel she wrote. The acquisition is the distributor’s fourth collaboration with Jeunet, following Amelie, The City of Lost Children and Micmacs.

Violette stars Leïla Bekhti, Matthias Schoenaerts and Melvil Poupaud, and is based on Perrin’s bestselling novel Fresh Water for Flowers. It follows a cemetery caretaker whose peaceful life is disrupted by a mysterious stranger, leading her to face hidden truths from her past; Jeunet adapted the story with Guillaume Laurant, and the film was produced by 24 25 Films and Palomar.

## Coverage

- [Deadline: Sony Pictures Classics Takes Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s ‘Violette’](https://deadline.com/2026/11/sony-pictures-classics-jean-pierre-jeunet-violette-1237214416/)
- [The Hollywood Reporter: Sony Pictures Classics Takes Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s ‘Violette’ for U.S.](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sony-pictures-classics-jean-pierre-jeunets-violette-1236748531/)

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