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Crime and opera for Laurent in Requiem for a Killer

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Shooting starts next Monday on Jérôme Le Gris’s debut feature, the political thriller Requiem for a Killer (“A Requiem For Mister Child”), produced by Alain Terzian.

The film’s bill is headed by Mélanie Laurent, a rising star of French cinema. Shooting Star 2007 and winner of the Best Female Newcomer Cesar 2007, Laurent has recently graced screens in three theatrical hits: Inglourious Basterds [+see also:
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. The cast also includes Clovis Cornillac (who has just finished shooting Bernard Jeanjean’s La Vie Devant Nous), Tcheky Karyo and Christopher Stills.

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Scripted by the director, the film centres on Lucrèce (Laurent), a hitwoman who is passionate about opera and has been hired to kill a baritone singer (Stills).

This contract, which is expected to be her final mission, has to be carried out during a festival in Switzerland where she will pass herself off as an opera singer, performing Handel’s Messiah. But French counter-intelligence is keeping watch through guitarist Rico (Cornillac).

Produced by Alter Films, Requiem for a Killer has co-production backing from France 2 Cinéma , Rhône-Alpes Cinéma and StudioCanal, and a pre-acquisition from Canal+.

The nine-week shoot will take place until June 11 in Ile-de-France (six weeks), before relocating to Lyon and the Alps (three weeks). Studio Canal has bought the French distribution and international sales rights.

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(Translated from French)

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