COLORS OF TIME

(La Venue de l’avenir)

US Premiere | France | 2025 | Comedy, Drama | 126 min | In French with English subtitles

Directed by: Cédric Klapisch
Written by: Cédric Klapisch, Santiago Amigorena
Produced by: Bruno Lévy & Cédric Klapisch (Ce Qui Me Meut), Gaëtan David (La Companie Cinématographique), André Logie (Panache Productions), France 2 Cinéma
Cinematography: Alexis Kavyrchine
Original Score: Rob
Film Editing: Anne-Sophie Bion
Cast: Suzanne Lindon (Adèle), Abraham Wapler (Seb), Vincent Macaigne (Guy), Julia Piaton (Céline), Zinedine Soualem (Abdel), Paul Kircher (Anatole), Vassili Schneider (Lucien), Sara Giraudeau (Odette), Cécile de France (Calixte), François Berléand (Victor Hugo), Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (Sarah Bernhardt), Olivier Gourmet (Claude Monet), Raïka Hazanavicius (Rose)
International Sales: StudioCanal

Synopsis

A group of strangers, all descendants of a woman named Adèle Meunier, are gathered in Normandy. The town would like to purchase her long-abandoned property, and four “cousins” are tasked with overseeing the transaction. Thus begins a genealogical journey into the past, taking us to 1895 Paris, with the City of Light on the brink of an industrial and cultural revolution. Aptly entitled “The Coming of the Future” in French, Colors of Time literally plunges us into a moment in time when Parisian creativity is at its apex… when not only electricity and technology, but photography and Impressionism in painting and music are creating a spark that’s about to erupt into a movement far beyond anyone’s expectations. Cédric Klapisch‘s endearing new comedy is nothing less than a soul-stirring, time-traveling – at times, hallucinogenic – trip for lovers of the arts everywhere.

Director’s Biography

Writer/director Cédric Klapisch shot his first short, In Transit, as a graduate student at New York University in 1986.  His second short, Ce qui me meut, nabbed a César nomination and the Best Short Film Award from French Cinema Critics. In 1992, Little Nothings was nominated for a Best First Feature César Award. Klapisch has gone on to write and direct fifteen features, including Family Resemblances (1996), which garnered three César Awards, including one for Best Screenplay. He is perhaps best known for his Spanish Apartment (2002)/ Russian Dolls (2005)/ Chinese Puzzle (COLCOA 2014) trilogy, and its Amazon series sequel, Greek Salad (2023). His most recent features include Someone, Somewhere (COLCOA 2019) and Rise (TAFFF 2022). Clearly a TAFFF regular, Klapisch’s work was honored with a COLCOA Spotlight retrospective in 2014. He was also showrunner on the first season of the Netflix series Call My Agent! (COLCOA 2016) and directed a “playfully updated” production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in 2023. Colors of Time premiered out-of-competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.