‘Yes!’ Director Nadav Lapid Preparing France-Based Follow-Up to Berlin-Winning ‘Synonyms’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Dissident filmmaker Nadav Lapid will shoot his next feature in France, describing the project — still in the earliest stages of development — as a thematic echo of his Paris-set Berlin Golden Bear winner “Synonyms.” “You could say it’s the guy from ‘Synonyms’ meeting his older self,” Lapid tells Variety. “The young character, Y, encounters the older, exhausted Y of the present. The film explores what it means to live in detachment. I wouldn’t call it optimistic, but it does suggest that even if