27/04/2012 - After the critically acclaimed Donoma, Djinn Carrenard is shooting Faire l’amour.

Since Monday April 23, the cameras have been rolling on Djinn Carrenard’s second film, Faire l’amour (lit. “Making love”). After Donoma, the film that he produced himself on a €150 budget, that was so well-received by the critics when it came out in November (read more), and that won the 2011 Louis-Delluc Prize for best film (news), the filmmaker will now act as well as direct in his second film, beside Emma Nicolai and Laurette Lalande.

With a screenplay written by Djinn Carrenard, the film explores the theme of the couple through the characters of a young woman just out of prison looking for her daughter, and that of a handicapped artist in search of inspiration. Oussmane is a musician losing his hearing in a loveless relationship with Laure, an air hostess desperately trying to get pregnant. Kahina is a young woman doing time in a prison somewhere in Ile de France who gets leave for a week to spend Christmas with her four-year-old daughter. Oussmane and Kahina will fall in love during this week on leave, clinging on to each other with the passion of their instinct to survive. Kahina can’t see her daughter, Kahina falls in love, Kahina has to return to prison.

Faire l’amour is co-produced by Arte France Cinéma. The film benefits from pre-acquisitions from Canal + and Ciné+, and an advance on receipts from the National Centre for Cinema and the moving image (CNC). Filming will take about nine weeks in the Paris region.

(Translated from French)