VietNamNet Bridge – French movie stars Audrey Tautou, Bérénice Bejo and Mélanie Laurent will appear in the new film "Eternite" (Eternity) by Vietnamese French director Tran Anh Hung.

Director Tran Anh Hung.

According to Indiewire and IonCinema, Eternite is among the most anticipated films of 2015.

Tran Anh Hung had a smoldering early career, snagging the Camera D’or at Cannes for his 1993 debut Scent of the Green Papaya and nabbing the Golden Lion in Venice for his 1995 sophomore film, Cyclo.

A five year break brought The Vertical Ray of the Sun in 2000, and then nine years later Hung premiered his ill-received English-language debut, I Come with the Rain, which starred Josh Hartnett.

An adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s celebrated novel Norwegian Wood was better received, though received a delayed and limited theatrical run in the US.

According to Indiewire and IonCinema, Hung’s back with an exciting new project, his French language debut Eternity, set to star three beautiful French women, Melanie Laurent, Beatrice Bejo, and Audrey Tautou, based on Alice Ferney’s celebrated novel which concerns a story from the late 19th century to the end of the 20th century of three generations of women and their children, all born into a Catholic bourgeois family, as the women evolve from girls to mothers then widows, after their husbands were killed in war.

Bérénice Bejo is an Argentinian-born French actress, who played Christiana in the 2001 film A Knight's Tale and Peppy Miller in the 2011 film The Artist. Her work in The Artist received a nomination for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won her the César Award for Best Actress.

From left: Mélanie Laurent, Audrey Tautou and Bérénice Bejo.

Audrey Justine Tautou made her acting debut at 18 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Venus Beauty Institute (1999) led to critical acclaim, and she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress. Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Le Libertin and Happenstance (2000). Tautou achieved recognition for her lead role in the 2001 film Amélie, which met with critical acclaim and was a major box-office success. Amélie won Best Film at the European Film Awards; it won four César Awards (including Best Film and Best Director), two BAFTA Awards (including Best Original Screenplay), and was nominated for five Academy Awards.

She has since built a successful career, appearing in films from a range of genres, including the thriller Dirty Pretty Things, The Da Vinci Code, and the romantic Priceless (2006). She has received critical acclaim for her many roles including the drama film A Very Long Engagement (2004) and the biographical drama Coco avant Chanel (2009). She has been nominated three times for the César Award and twice for the BAFTA for Best Actress in a leading role. She became one of the few French actors in history to have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in June 2004.

Mélanie Laurent rose to fame when she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in the film Don't Worry, I'm Fine in 2006. Laurent further became known to international audiences for her role as Shoshanna Dreyfus in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, for which she won Best Actress from the Online Film Critics Society and the Austin Film Critics Association, and then also starred in one of 2013's top-grossing Hollywood films, Now You See Me.

T. Van