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Jacques Doillon filming Rodin

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- The filmmaker brings together a cast comprising Vincent Lindon, Izïa Higelin and Séverine Caneele for this Les Films du Lendemain production being sold by Wild Bunch

Jacques Doillon filming Rodin
Actor Vincent Lindon, who will play Auguste Rodin

Last Monday saw shooting for Jacques Doillon’s 28th feature film, Rodin [+see also:
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, begin in Chartres. For this film, the director, who has been selected in competition at Berlin four times (in 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1998) and at Venice four times (in 1986, 1987, 1996 and 2003), in addition to two appearances on the Croisette (in 1979 and 1984), has chosen to focus on a famous figure from art history: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). To take on the role of this self-taught man of the people and revolutionary sculptor (the most brilliant of his time), Doillon has called upon Vincent Lindon (last year’s winner of Cannes’ Best Actor Award and Best Actor at the César Awards this year for his role in The Measure of a Man [+see also:
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, nominated five additional times for the latter prize in 1993, 2000, 2008, 2010 and 2013). Alongside him will feature Izïa Higelin (winner of the 2013 César Award for Most Promising Actress for Mauvaise Fille [+see also:
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, nominated for the 2015 César Award for Best Supporting Actress for Samba [+see also:
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as well as the 2016 Lumière Award for Best Actress for Summertime [+see also:
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) and Belgian actress Séverine Caneele (who came to fame in 1999, winning the Best Actress Award at Cannes for L’Humanité, but has rarely graced the big screen since).

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Written by Jacques Doillon, the script sees a 42-year-old Rodin meet Camille Claudel, a young woman desperate to become his assistant. He quickly acknowledges her as his most able pupil, and treats her as an equal in matters of creation. More than a decade of work and passionate engagement ensues. Countless break-ups are followed by just as many make-ups, until Camille decides to break up definitively, something from which she will never recover, and from which Rodin himself will emerge deeply wounded. The film also recounts the artist's numerous affairs with assistants and models, as well as his relationship with Rose Beuret, his lifelong partner. We discover Rodin as an erotically charged sensualist, for whom art is a profoundly sexual delight – a sculptor of flesh in movement, who gives life to the very stone itself.

Produced by Kristina Larsen for Les Films du Lendemain, Rodin is being co-produced by Wild Bunch (which will also handle the film’s French distribution and international sales), France 3 Cinéma and Belgian outfit Artémis Productions. The feature film, the rights for which have been bought in advance by Canal+ and Cine+, also has an advance on receipts from the CNC and can rely on the talents of Christophe Beaucarne as DoP and Pascaline Chavanne in costume design. The almost ten-week shoot is scheduled to take place until mid-July in Touraine and Ile-de-France.

As a reminder, Les Films du Lendemain, whose filmography notably includes titles by Bertrand Bonello, Benoît Jacquot, Cédric Kahn and Lou Ye, currently has Gilles BourdosEspèces menacées on its books in post-production (read the news) and will release Marie Madinier’s Le Secret des banquises [+see also:
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on 22 June (read the news). Standing out among the rest of their projects is the co-production Love Me Not by Greek filmmaker Alexandros Avranas (who won two prizes at Venice in 2013 for Miss Violence [+see also:
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), which is in pre-production.

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(Translated from French)

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