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Jailbirds in post-production

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- The movie by Audrey Estrougo, starring Sophie Marceau, is produced by Rouge International and sold by Elle Driver

Jailbirds in post-production
Actress Sophie Marceau

An original and committed star of French film revealed with Ain’t Scared [+see also:
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(2008 Berlinale Forum) before moving to Leila [+see also:
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(2011) and Une histoire banale [+see also:
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(a film denouncing rape that she produced herself and that was released last year in cinemas), Audrey Estrougo concluded on 10 February in Rennes filming of her 4th feature: Jailbirds [+see also:
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. The director enjoys a first class lead with Sophie Marceau who, for the first time in a long time, removes herself from the comedy genre where critics deplored that she was wasting her talent.

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The cast also features Canadian Suzanne Clément (awarded at the Cannes Certain Regard Section in 2012 for Laurence Anyways [+see also:
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and featuring in competition last year on the Croisette in Mommy), Alice Belaïdi (French Women [+see also:
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), Eye Haidara, Anne Le Ny (nominated for the 2012 César for Best Supporting Role for Untouchable [+see also:
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), Marie-Sohna Condé, Marie Denarnaud, Belgian Anne Coesens (2010 Magritte for Best Actress for Illegal [+see also:
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), Benjamin Siksou, Nicolas Gob and Julie Gayet (producer of the film).

The screenplay, written by the director, centres on Mathilde, who is just an average woman. Only, in order to save the man that she loves from the hell of prison, she is quick to abandon her son to take her husband’s place behind bars. While her husband is on the run and her son holds this against her, from this point on Mathilde answers to the prison number 383205-B. However, Mathilde is no ordinary convict…

Produced by Julie Gayet and Nadia Turincev for Rouge International and by SuperProd (Clément Calvet and Jérémie Fajner), Jailbirds is co-produced by France 2 Cinéma and by Belgian Nexus Factory. Pre-bought by OCS, the film enjoys support from the region of Brittany. Distribution in French cinemas will be managed by ARP Sélection, international sales are being handled by Elle Driver that added the movie to its line-up at the recent Berlinale European Film Market.

At the moment Rouge International has also in post-production La fille du patron [+see also:
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 (lit. The Boss’s Daughter) by Olivier Loustau (read article) and European co-productions The Treasure by Romanian Corneliu Porumboiu and Family Film [+see also:
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interview: Olmo Omerzu
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by Slovenian Olmo Omerzu (article).

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(Translated from French)

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