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"Matthias Schoenaerts has been cast in the new period drama Suite Fran\u00C3\u00A7aise. The Belgian actor is said to be &amp;quot;in the final stages of negotiations&amp;quot; to star as the leading man in Suite Fran\u00C3\u00A7aise, reports the Daily Mail.   Based on a section of Irene Nemirovsky&amp;#039;s novel of the same title, the World War II drama tells the love story between a French woman (Michelle Williams) and a German officer placed at her home she shares with her mother-in-law (Kristin Scott Thomas) in Nazi-occupied France. Nemirovsky intended to write the novel as a five-part series, but only the first two parts were written before her death at Auschwitz. Suite Fran\u00C3\u00A7aise will be directed by Saul Dibb, who helmed The Duchess Schoenaerts can currently be seen in Jacques Audiard&amp;#039;s Rust and Bone opposite Marion Cotillard. Watch the trailer for Rust and Bone below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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