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That’s a wrap for Jalil Lespert’s Iris

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- Romain Duris, Charlotte Le Bon, Camille Cottin and the director himself all star in this film produced by WY Productions and being sold by TF1 International

That’s a wrap for Jalil Lespert’s Iris
Romain Duris in Iris

Friday marks the final day of shooting in Normandy for Iris [+see also:
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, Jalil Lespert’s fourth feature-length film after 24 Mesures [+see also:
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(unveiled in the 2007 Venice Critics’ Week), Headwinds [+see also:
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(2011) and Yves Saint Laurent [+see also:
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(featured as part of the line-up in the 2014 Berlinale Panorama, registering 1.6 million admissions in France and taking more than €21 million in worldwide revenue – nominated for seven César Awards in 2015, winning Best Actor).

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The billing for this remake of Japanese director Hideo Nakata’s 2000 film Chaos includes Romain Duris (nominated for the 2006, 2011, and 2015 César Awards for Best Actor for his roles in The Beat That My Heart Skipped [+see also:
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, Heartbreaker [+see also:
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and The New Girlfriend [+see also:
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, respectively; and who we will see gracing the silver screen from 31 August in Un Petit Boulot and then later this year in Cessez-le-feu and La Confession), Canadian actress Charlotte Le Bon (nominated for the 2015 César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Yves Saint Laurent, who will be appearing on the cinema listings from 13 July in Bastille Day, and then in Le Secret des Banquises), Jalil Lespert himself (winner of the 2001 César Award for Most Promising Actor for his role in Human Resources and who we will soon be able to see in Arnaud des Pallières’ Orpheline [+see also:
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), Camille Cottin (The Parisian Bitch [+see also:
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), Sophie Verbeeck (nominated for the 2016 Lumière Award for Most Promising Actress for her role in All About Them [+see also:
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) and Adel Bencherif (nominated for the 2010 César Award for Most Promising Actor for his role in A Prophet [+see also:
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).

Penned by the Australian film and television writer Andrew Bovell (Lantana, A Most Wanted Man [+see also:
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) and adapted by Jalil Lespert and Jérémie Guez, the script sees Iris, the wife of rich banker Antoine Doriot, disappear in the middle of Paris. A young mechanic mired in debt, Max, could very well be linked to her abduction, but the investigators are not even close to finding out the truth about the events unfolding before their very eyes.

Produced by Wassim Béji for WY Productions (which has been responsible for the production of all of Jalil Lespert’s films, but also known for A Perfect Man [+see also:
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), Iris is a co-production with France 2 Cinéma. The rights to the film (for which shooting began on 25 January in Paris, the Ile-de-France region and Normandy) have already been bought by Canal+ and Ciné+. It will be distributed in France from 2 November 2016 by Universal Pictures International France and will be sold internationally by TF1 International.

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(Translated from French)

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