27/07/2017 - The Multi Media Est production is being represented internationally by Films Boutique

After his previous film, One Floor Below [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Radu Muntean
film profile], had a positive reception at Cannes in 2015, Radu Muntean is ready to venture back behind the camera for his new feature, Alice T. [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Radu Muntean
film profile]. The Multi Media Est production will start a 32-day shoot in the second week of August. The project is being co-produced by Chimney (Sweden) and Les Films de l’Après-Midi (France). The budget amounts to €1.3 million. 

The screenplay, written by Muntean together with his regular writing partners Alexandru Baciu and Răzvan Rădulescu, follows Alice (Andra Guţi), an adopted teenager who has a strained relationship with her adoptive mother, Bogdana (Mihaela Sîrbu). One day, during a heated discussion with Bogdana, Alice confesses that she is pregnant and that she wants to keep the baby. The confession has a powerful effect on Bogdana, as she has unsuccessfully tried to get pregnant in the past. 

Tudor Lucaciu is the DoP. Other important parts in the screenplay are played by Gheorghe Ifrim, Maria Popistaşu, Ela Ionescu and Viorel Comănici. Producer Oana Iancu tells Cineuropa that post-production is expected to wrap in February 2018. The project is being represented internationally by Films Boutique and already has a French distributor, BAC Films. 

All of Muntean’s films over the last decade (Boogie [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Dragos Vîlcu
interview: Radu Muntean
film profile], Tuesday, After Christmas [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Radu Muntean
film profile] and One Floor Below) have children characters, but Alice T. is the first to feature a youngster as a main character. The director tells Cineuropa that he and his writing partners have children of different ages and that they have been preoccupied by the challenges of parent-child relationships. He also says that important people in his life were adopted as children, “which makes the story rather personal, although there are no biographical details in the screenplay”. 

The domestic release is expected for 2018.