Polanski 's French-language adaptation of the award-winning play '' Venus in Fur '' , stars his wife Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric . Polanski worked with the play 's author , David Ives , on the screenplay . The film was shot from December 2012 to February 2013 in French and is Polanski 's first non-English-language feature film in forty years . The film premiered in competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival on 25 May 2013
2013 Cannes Film Festival
2013 Cannes Film Festival
Roman Polanski