French Filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve has announced her 11th film, a biopic following the 18th-century philosopher and writer Mary Wollstonecraft, titled If Love Should Die. The project’s logline suggests that the film will take place “On the eve of the French Revolution, an impoverished young Englishwoman makes the bold decision to leave her life according to the ideals of the enlightenment.” The film will be produced by representatives from Mubi, Caspian Films, Les Films Pelléas, Mer Film, Our Films, and Arte France Cinéma.

Wollstonecraft is known for feminist ideas about women during a time when the gender had very few. Her best-known publication was in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which explained how men and women should be treated equally as there is no natural order between the two. This piece of literature helped to shape the feminist movement and helped women take the step toward gender equality. 

In regards to the project, Hansen-Løve shared in a recent statement, “My ambition is to capture with as much acuity and truth as possible this pivotal era and the life of a woman that cinema has never before looked at. Iconic in England, Mary Wollstonecraft is not known in France. That suits me: making a film about a figure who is too predictable, or too famous, has never interested me. I am attracted to characters engaged in a quest, devoid of certainties. The souls of artists, no doubt, but I am inspired by the most fragile, the most vulnerable among them.”

Hansen-Løve is known for her directing, screenwriting, and acting. She won the Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard Section during the 2009 Cannes ceremony for her film The Father of My Children and the Silber Bear award for Best Director for her film Things to Come in 2016 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Some of her other most popular films are Bergman Island, One Fine Morning, Eden, and Goodbye, First Love. 

No other information has been announced about the project.