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Clotilde Hesme heads up the cast of Diane a les épaules

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- Shooting is to begin shortly for Fabien Gorgeart’s first feature film, a Petit Film production sold by Be For Film and also starring Fabrizio Rongione

Clotilde Hesme heads up the cast of Diane a les épaules
Actress Clotilde Hesme

Building on the enthusiastic reception for Raw [+see also:
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]
on the Croisette (where it won the FIPRESCI Prize for the parallel sections), French production house Petit Film will begin shooting another feature debut, Fabien Gorgeart’s Diane Has the Right Shape [+see also:
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, on 20 July. Clotilde Hesme (winner of the 2012 César Award for Most Promising Actress for her role in Angèle and Tony [+see also:
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]
, discovered in Regular Lovers [+see also:
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interview: Philippe Garrel
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]
and seen gracing the screen more recently in Chocolat [+see also:
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making of
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and the television series The Returned) leads the cast, alongside Belgian actor Fabrizio Rongione (a familiar face in the works of the Dardenne brothers, winner of the Magritte Award for Best Actor in 2015 for his role in Two Days, One Night [+see also:
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interview: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
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]
and at the top of his game in La Sapienza [+see also:
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and The Son of Joseph [+see also:
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, among others). Supporting them are Thomas Suire (No Rest for the Brave [+see also:
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), Grégory Montel (agent to the stars in TV series Call My Agent), Alice Butaud (Love Songs [+see also:
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]
), Olivier Rabourdin (nominated for the 2011 César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Of Gods and Men [+see also:
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interview: Xavier Beauvois
film profile
]
and who put in an excellent performance in Eastern Boys [+see also:
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interview: Robin Campillo
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) and Elsa Lepoivre (member of the Comédie Française, acclaimed for her role in The Dandelions [+see also:
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).

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The screenplay, written by the director (who has five shorts under his belt, including Le Sens de l’orientation, winner of the Clermont-Ferrand Special Jury Prize in 2012, and Un Chien de ma chienne, which was presented at Cannes in the 2013 Critics’ Week), follows Diane, a woman who does not hesitate when agreeing to bear her best friends’ child. Of all the times for it to happen, Diane finds herself falling for her electrician’s charms under these, less than ideal, circumstances…

Produced by Jean des Forêts for Petit Film, Diane Has the Right Shape a budget of €2.3 million, including pre-sales to Canal+, an advance on receipts from the CNC, support from the Cofinova 13 Sofica and the Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes and Ile-de-France regions, production funding from the Lot-et-Garonne department as well as funding for the writing process from Angoa. The 36-day shoot will take place in Lot-de-Garonne and the Parisian area. Haut et Court will take on the film’s domestic distribution, with Be For Films handling its international sales.

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(Translated from French)

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