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Filming to start for Katell Quillévéré’s Suzanne

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- On August 8, the filmmaker will start shooting her second feature to star Sara Forestier, Adèle Haenel, and François Damiens

After first being discovered at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes 2010 and awarded the Jean Vigo Prize for Love Like Poison [+see also:
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, Katell Quillévéré (photo) is now to start shooting her second feature, Suzanne, on August 8. The film is to star Sara Forestier (2011 Cesar for Best Actress in The Names of Love [+see also:
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and next December to appear in Télé-gaucho), Adèle Haenel (nominated for a Cesar in 2008 and 2012 for Most Promising Actress for Water Lilies [+see also:
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and House of Tolerance [+see also:
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), and Belgian actor François Damiens (nominated for a 2011 Cesar for Best Supporting Actor for Heartbreaker [+see also:
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and noted for his appearance in Delicacy).

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Written by the director with Mariette Désert, the screenplay tells the story of a family and a love affair, through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne. The latter has a happy childhood, despite the absence of her mother who died when she and her sister Maria were very young. Her father Nicolas, who is loving but clumsy, does his best to keep the family together, by sacrificing himself for them instead of rebuilding his own life. As a teenager, Suzanne becomes pregnant, meets a boy who is a bit of a rogue, falls madly in love with him, and then runs off with him, leaving her baby behind. There will be years of wandering, prison, waiting, then an accident... It will be a difficult journey, peppered with traps, before this family can finally rebuild itself again, and the father, daughter, and grandson are reunited…

Produced by Bruno Lévy for Move Movie, Suzanne has been awarded a €550,000 advance on receipts from the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC). Shooting will be ongoing until October in the Bouches-du-Rhône, the Gard, and the Hérault. Mars Distribution will handle the film’s release in French cinemas and Films Distribution will be in charge of its international sales.

Move Movie, who also produced Patrice Chéreau’s Persecution [+see also:
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(a competitor in Venice in 2009) and Mélanie Laurent’s The Adopted [+see also:
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(2011), also has Nicolas Mercier’s Le grand départ in post-production (featuring Pio Marmaï, Eddy Mitchell, and Jérémie Elkaïm – distribution: StudioCanal). Bruno Lévy is also Cédric Klapisch’s partner in Ce Qui Me Meut, the production company that is currently preparing to shoot the latter’s next film, Chinese Puzzle (a sequel to L’Auberge Espagnole and Russian Dolls [+see also:
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with Audrey Tautou, Cécile de France, Romain Duris, and Kelly Reilly), this autumn.

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(Translated from French)

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