Having taken home the Best Picture statue with a period piece two years in a row now, your or I would be hard-pressed to blame The Weinstein Company for grabbing these things whenever they crop up. Next for the titans of independent film would be a French-produced, America-set picture featuring the onscreen charms of Bérénice Bejo and DP talents of Guillaume Schiffman.

No, don’t worry — that movie isn’t coming back to theaters.

I’m actually talking about Populaire, a Regis Roinsard-helmed, ’50s cinema-inspired comedy that stars Deborah Francois (pictured above) as a young woman who, upon arriving in New York City for a typing contest, finds herself engaged in some romance; Romain Duris will play her mentor and lover. The first shot has arrived at the site, courtesy of the Wild Bunch website (via ThePlaylist).

Not much can be taken from the above image — other than “that looks pretty” — though it does, regardless, whet my appetite for a little period fetishization. And if it doesn’t rely on a) erroneous ideas of how a movie from that period is supposed to look and feel, b) a half-baked love story, and c) an overexposed canine, maybe it can earn some praise that’s actually deserved.

You can read a full synopsis below:

What do you make of this first shot?