EXCLUSIVE: Cannes habitués Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet hit the red carpet at the festival this evening with psychological thriller Karma, which premieres as a Special Screening, and Deadline can reveal a first teaser.

Cotillard stars as a woman with a troubled past whose new life is upended by a child’s disappearance in the drama written and directed by Canet. It marks their sixth collaboration after Little White Lies, Blood Ties, Rock’n Roll, Little White Lies 2 and Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom.

In an interview with the Deadline ahead of the premiere, Cotillard revealed that Canet wrote the protagonist role for her as she stepped-up work again after a period of focusing on her children.

“He said, ‘I really want to write a movie for you with a very, very strong character, with something different from what you did before’,” she recounted.

“He came up with this character whose past comes back and turns her life into something that is totally different from what she’s been living for years. He wrote a very, very strong and twisted script for me. She’s a woman who slowly reveals herself, who thinks she’s weak but discovers she’s not.”

The thriller is lead produced by Paris-based Iconoclast in co-production with Canet’s Caneo France. Pathé Films is handling French distribution and international sales.