Let Love In begins filming with Vandermeersch and Marinelli

Principal photography has begun on Let Love In, a new romantic drama directed by Belgian filmmaker Felix van Groeningen and starring Charlotte Vandermeersch and Italian actor Luca Marinelli. The production, which reunites the team behind the Cannes 2022 prize winner The Eight Mountains, is being produced by Menuetto, van Groeningen’s Rufus, and Mediawan-owned OUR Films in collaboration with Circle One, and is being presented by Mubi and The Match Factory.

The film, written by van Groeningen, Vandermeersch and Anne Paulicevich, follows a couple whose relationship is shaken when a long-kept affair is confessed. While the revelation initially appears to signal a crisis, the story unfolds as a process of healing and reconnection, exploring themes of honesty, intimacy and renewed commitment. Producers credit the project as a personal work: Hans Everaert described the film as an autofiction partly inspired by events in van Groeningen’s and Vandermeersch’s real-life relationship.

Mubi is cofinancing and will handle distribution in key territories, while The Match Factory is managing international sales. Financing and production support come from the Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Kinepolis...