Breillat to helm 'Abus p Faiblesse'

PARIS -- Radical Gallic helmer Catherine Breillat is placed to helm "Abus p Faiblesse," an autobiographical drama according to her book showing her destructive relationship with conman Christophe Rocancourt. Pic activates Maud, a filmmaker struggling with hemiplegia, who will get altered by Vilko, a stylish crook she would like to cast in her own next movie. Isabelle Huppert will have opposite French rapper-switched-thesp Kool Shen in "Faiblesse," that is likely to lense in Paris throughout the other half of the season. Breillat's follow-as much as "Bluebeard" -- launched Stateside by Strand Delivering -- "Faiblesse" is created by Paris-based shingle Expensive Films and co-created by Arte France Cinema, the film production arm from the French-German broadcaster. Arte France Cinema has additionally boarded Argentine helmer Pablo Trapero's "Elephante Blanco" (working title) and Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye's "Mystery." Created by French outfit L'ensemble des Films du Lendemain, "Mystery" is really a thriller carrying out a Chinese middle-class lady who finds out her husband's double existence. Hao Lei ("Summer time Structure") and Qin Hao ("Spring Fever") star. Presently shooting in Wuhan, "Mystery" marks Ye's official comeback in China. Since pointing "Summer time Structure" in 2006, Ye, a questionable and significantly acclaimed helmer, has been suspended from making films in China. His last film "Love and Bruises" performed at Cannes. A drama toplining Ricardo Darin, Martina Gusman and Jeremie Renier, "Elephant" focuses on two priests battling to higher social conditions inside a drug-plagued slum 'burb in Buenos Aires. As reported in Variety (12 ,. 2, 2011), the $4 million "Elephant" is Trapero's greatest-allocated pic to date. It's created by Spain's Morena Films, Trapero's Matanza Cine and Patagonik, and co-created by France's Full House. Pic is shooting on location in Buenos Aires. John Hopewell led for this report. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com