As we’ve previously mentioned, Keira Knightley takes on the role of protagonist Charlotte, alongside a remarkably starry voicecast, which includes the brilliant Helen McCrory, who died of cancer in April 2021. Marion Cotillard, meanwhile, handles the role of Charlotte in the French language version of the film.

Speaking to Variety, producer Julia Rosenberg said she believed the film would “connect with young creative women”.

“It’s a war story, it’s a refugee story, but it’s really a biopic of an artist who’s been overlooked,” she explained. “She invented the graphic memoir, she played with autofiction and did all of these conceptual things that are now widely used. She’s one of the great artists of the 20th century.”

“I was blissfully ignorant of how animation is normally developed, which is through storyboarding,” she recalled. “Not knowing that, I developed this as I would a live-action film and spent four years working on the screenplay with Erik Rutherford, who did a lot of very heavy lifting. Then writer David Bezmozgis came on and worked on geometrically refining the character development – it was a lovely collaboration.”

Charlotte: watch the trailer for Keira Knightley’s heartfelt animated biopic featuring Helen McCrory