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Advance on receipts from the CNC for Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Years

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- The CNC will also be supporting films by Alice Winocour, Dephine and Muriel Coulin, Raja Amari, Charles Berling, Thomas Bidegain, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Advance on receipts from the CNC for Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Years
Arnaud Desplechin

Twelve feature-film projects have been accepted this summer, during the third 2014 session of the CNC’s advance on receipts. Featuring among the seven titles selected by the second committee is My Golden Years by Arnaud Desplechin. With its shoot having been under way for several weeks now in Northern France, the director’s eighth fiction feature revolves around Paul Dédalus, an anthropological researcher in his forties who is getting ready to go back to France. Images from his childhood start coming back to him… memories of Paris, Moscow and, above all, Roubaix. The cast includes Mathieu Amalric and Patrick d'Assumçao. The film sees Why Not Productions at the helm and is co-produced by France 2 Cinéma. With a pre-purchase by Canal+, the title has also received backing from Pictanovo, among others. Distribution in France will be handled by Le Pacte and international sales by Wild Bunch. For the record, Desplechin has taken part in the competition at Cannes five times (The Sentinel in 1992, My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument in 1996, Esther Kahn in 2000, A Christmas Tale [+see also:
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in 2008 and Jimmy P. – Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian [+see also:
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in 2013) and once in the competition at Venice (in 2004 with Kings and Queen [+see also:
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).

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Also benefitting from an advance on receipts from the CNC are the second features Après la guerre [+see also:
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by Alice Winocour (who made her breakthrough at the Cannes Critics’ Week in 2012 with Augustine [+see also:
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– produced by Dharamsala) and Voir du pays by Delphine and Muriel Coulin (who came to fame at the Cannes Critics’ Week in 2011 with 17 Girls [+see also:
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– produced by Archipel 35). Other titles that have been accepted are L'échappée [+see also:
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by Tunisian director Raja Amari (Red Satin [+see also:
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), which will be produced by Mon Voisin Productions; Kommunisten [+see also:
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 by Jean-Marie Straub (produced by Andolfi); La femme de la plaque argentique [+see also:
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by Japan’s Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Les Productions Balthazar and Film-In-Evolution); and the documentary project L'adolescente by Sébastien Lifshitz (who won the César for Best Documentary in 2013 for Les invisibles [+see also:
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), which will be produced by Agat Films.

Meanwhile, five feature-debut projects will receive the advance on receipts from the first committee: Les Cowboys by Thomas Bidegain (winner of the César for Best Writing – Original in 2010 for A Prophet [+see also:
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and the César for Best Adaptation in 2013 for Rust & Bone [+see also:
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), which will be helmed by Les Productions du Trésor; Sam [+see also:
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by Farid Bentoumi (Les Films Velvet); Nadia by actor Charles Berling (currently without a producer); and the documentary projects Manuel de libération [+see also:
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by Alexander Kuznetsov (Petit à Petit Production) and Bricks by Quentin Ravelli (Survivance).

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(Translated from French)

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