26/05/2016 - Working with Anonymes Films and Tobina Film yet again, the pair plunges into the world of adaptations, tackling a Jean-Patrick Manchette novel

Following Amer [+see also:
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Every summer, Luce, an eccentric 50-something painter, spends her time in a small and isolated township, which lies in ruins in southern France, surrounded by guests. This summer, these guests are Max Bernier (an old flame, author and alcoholic), her current squeeze (a lawyer named Bisorgueil), and three friends of his whom she has yet to meet: Rhino, Gros and Alex. After finishing their shopping in town, these three unknowns attack an armoured truck and make off with 250 kg of gold. They then return to Luce’s place, counting on her to hide them until the end of the summer… But certain events will throw a spanner in the works, and the hamlet will transform itself into a battlefield over the course of a very long and turbulent day, which we follow almost minute by minute. 

The leading roles will be played by Elina Löwensohn (Suite Armoricaine [+see also:
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The film is a Franco-Belgian production, produced by Anonymes Films and co-produced by Tobina Film, with the participation of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation’s Film and Audiovisual Centre, BeTV, Wallimage/Bruxellimage and BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance in Belgium, and Canal+, Ciné+, the CNC, the territorial collective of Corsica and the Pays de la Loire region. Creative Europe has also thrown its support behind the film, which will be sold internationally by Bac Films Distribution, with Shellac handling its French distribution.

(Translated from French)