08/04/2005 - On September 5, the first feature directed by the script-writer Santiago Amigorena, starring Juliette Binoche, John Turturro and Mélanie Laurent will start shooting

On September 5, Quelques jours en septembre, first feature directed by the script-writer Santiago Amigorena, will start shooting. The film will be starring Juliette Binoche, John Turturro, and Mélanie Laurent (who was seen recently in The Beat that My Heart Skipped [+see also:
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film profile]). Before this film, the director wrote about 15 scripts (for Cédric Klapisch, Marion Vernoux...). Here, two children (Mélanie Laurent and a young Anglo-Saxon actor) go on a risky quest for their lost father who is a secret agent and used to live in France ten years ago but had to change identities and leave for the United States where he started another family. He then vanishes while he was trying to unite his two children, but one of his old fellow-secret agents (Juliette Binoche) helps them find him despite the bad man (John Turturro) who is determined to cut the wind out of their sails.

This €5M film is produced by Paolo Branco for Gémini Films (which will also be distributing it in France and will handle international sales) in collaboration with the director’s company (Les Films du Rat) and Italy (Roberto Di Girolamo). It is hoped that the project will be supported by Eurimages. It should take 9 weeks to film, in France and in Venice, but instead of starting in Spring, as planned initially, the first takes were postponed to the Autumn. The change was requested by Juliette Binoche who wished to work on the British director Anthony Minghella’s latest project, Breaking and Entering (starring Jude Law), between Abel Ferrara’s Mary (she has just finished it in Jerusalem) and Quelques jours en septembre.

(Translated from French)