Actor and filmmaker Valérie Donzelli will reteam together with her “Simply the Two of Us” co-writer Audrey Diwan – a Golden Lion winner with “Occurring” – to pen “The Infinite Current Ends,” a literary adaption that Donzelli is slated to direct. 

Primarily based on a fictionalized 2015 memoir from psychiatric nurse Mary Dorsan, the textual content embeds inside a teenage psychiatric ward over the course of a 12 months, teasing out the advanced bonds, challenges, frustrations and surprising moments of grace shared between sufferers and caregivers. Although unflinching in its evocations of violence, the venture’s central theme is that of sentimental training, per Donzelli.

“These social employees should discover methods to like these youngsters that aren’t their very own,” Donzelli tells Selection. “They need to discover the precise and constructive shops for that love, so we wish to discover this concept of training inside the numerous types of affection we give.”

Produced by Rectangle Productions (“Vortex,” “Occurring”), the venture has already acquired improvement assist from France’s CNC.

The artistic duo beforehand collaborated on “Simply the Two of Us,” a Donzelli-directed psychological thriller that premiered on the Cannes Movie Competition final 12 months. In the meantime, Diwan is broadly anticipated to hit the A-list circuit later this 12 months to launch her Noémie Merlant-led erotic drama “Emmanuelle” and to accompany “Beating Hearts” – a romantic musical, hotly touted for a Riviera berth, that Diwan co-wrote.

For her half, Donzelli is placing the ending touches on the documentary “Rue du Conservatoire,” additionally produced by Rectangle and due out later this 12 months. The non-fiction characteristic follows a graduating class of France’s Nationwide Academy of Dramatic Arts, the place Donzelli has beforehand taught. Diaphana will deal with French distribution.