Advance on receipts for Kaurismaki, Depardon, Schoeller and Hansen-Love
Six feature film screenplays have just been selected by the advance on receipts committee of the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC).
These include Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki’s French-language film Le Havre (see news), which is piloted by Fabienne Vonier for France’s Pyramide Productions, in co-production with Sputnik and Germany’s Pandora.
The pledge of an advance on receipts has also been made to famous documentary filmmaker Raymond Depardon for Journal de France, which will be co-directed by Claudine Nougaret and produced by Palmeraie et Desert. The director’s latest work, Country Profiles: Modern Life, screened in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes 2008 and also won the Louis-Delluc Prize.
The CNC will also back Pierre Schoeller’s L’Exercice de l’Etat (“State Exercise”, produced by Denis Freyd for Archipel 35). This is the director’s second feature after Versailles [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Geraldine Michelot
interview: Pierre Schoeller
film profile], which garnered acclaim at Cannes 2008 in the Un Certain Regard section.
An advance on receipts will also go to Un Amour de Jeunesse (“A Youthful Love”), the third feature by Mia Hansen-Love after All Is Forgiven [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: David Thion
interview: Mia Hansen-Löve
film profile] (2007) and Father of My Children [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mia Hansen-Løve
film profile] (released in the UK last week and set to be launched in Italy and Germany in the coming months), which were both unveiled on the Croisette. The young director is set to shoot the film this summer under the aegis of her loyal producer David Thion (Les Films Pelléas).
The CNC also selected Arnaud des Pallières’s Michael Kohlhaas, which will be produced by Serge Lalou for Les Films d'Ici. After Drancy Avenir (“Drancy Future”, 1996), Adieu (2004) and Parc (“Park”, unveiled at Venice 2008 in the Horizons section), the director’s new feature will centre on a sixteenth-century horse-dealer who leads a happy life until the day he suffers an injustice which drives him to become a socially-disruptive outlaw.
Finally, an advance on receipts has also been granted to La Pirogue (“Dugout”, produced by Eric Névé for Les Chauves Souris) by Senegalese director Moussa Touré, whose previous works include Toubab Bi (1991) and TGV (1999).
(Translated from French)
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