Michel Hazanavicius, Riad Sattouf and Florence Gastaud are producing under the banner of their joint Les Compagnons Du Cinema production company.įrench comedy duo Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais co-star as friends who attempt to train a giant fly and then take it on the road as a moneymaking venture in this characteristically whacky eighth feature for idiosyncratic director Dupieux. The high-profile French cast also includes Garance Marillier ( Raw) as Madame Claude’s alter ego and the woman who brought about her downfall, as well as Roschdy Zem, Pierre Deladonchamps, Benjamin Biolay and Hafsia Herzi, star of Verheyde’s last film Sex Doll. Verheyde reunites with Karole Rocher ( Sex Doll, Stella) for this bio-pic of about a real-life, iconic Paris brothel owner who controlled a network of hundreds of prostitutes supplying sex to politicians and celebrities in the 1960s and 1970s. At War and The Measure Of A Man both premiered in competition in Cannes but Brizé has also enjoyed debuts at Venice ( A Woman’s Life) and Locarno ( A Few Hours Of Spring). Vincent Lindon plays a workaholic executive, opposite Sandrine Kiberlain as his long-suffering wife, who has let his personal life be erased by the demands of his job. It is expected to be ready for a potential Cannes splash.Ĭontact: Wild Bunch For Better Or For WorseĪfter social dramas At War and The Measure Of A Man, Brizé explores the world of work again but from a different perspective. When he dies, it triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate revealing new depths of resentment and bitterness. As with her 2011 Cannes Jury Prize winner Poliss, Maïwenn both directs and stars. It is second fiction for screenwriter Carrère after The Moustache which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight in 2005. The film is based on French journalist Florence Aubenas’s bestselling non-fiction work Le Quai de Ouistreham, investigating rising precarity in French society through her experiences in the northern port city of Caen.ĭrawing on her own complex history, Maïwenn’s fifth feature DNA revolves around a woman with close ties to a beloved Algerian grandfather who protected her from a toxic home life as a child. Juliette Binoche stars as an author who goes undercover as a cleaning lady in a northern French port to research a book on job insecurity and social precariousness. Juliette Binoche in Emmanuel Carrère’s ‘Between Two Worlds’ Between Two Worlds

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