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VENICE 2013 Competition / France

Philippe Garrel returns to the Lido with Jealousy

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- The filmmaker participates for the 6th time to the Venetian competition, while seven other French productions and coproductions compete for the Golden Lion

Philippe Garrel returns to the Lido with Jealousy

Confirming the saying that "no one is a prophet in their own land", Philippe Garrel (65 years old) will take part for the 6th time in the race for the Golden Lion, during the 70th Venice Mostra, which begins tomorrow and during which his last opus will be unveiled on September 5: Jealousy [+see also:
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. Selected only once in competition in Cannes (with Frontier of Dawn [+see also:
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in 2008), the filmmaker’s work was already showcased on the Lido with J’entends plus la guitare (Silver Lion in 1991), Le vent de la nuit in 1999, Sauvage innocence in 2001, Regulars Lovers [+see also:
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(Silver Lion in 2005) and That Summer [+see also:
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With a cast featuring Louis Garrel, Anna Mouglalis, Rebecca Convenant, Olga Milshtein, Esther Garrel, Arthur Igual, Jérôme Huguet and Manon Kneusé, Jealousy is the 24th cinematographic fiction feature by the director who co-signed the screenplay with Caroline Deruas, Marc Chodolenko and Arlette Langmann. The film focuses on a man in his thirties, in the midst of a love story with a woman. But there is another woman with whom he has had a child he abandoned. He sees the child, but gives nothing to the mother who works to feed this son she is bringing up alone. The man is very poor, he is an actor, playing in the theatre. In love with his girlfriend, who is also an actress, he does all he can, making use of his connections, to find roles for her. In vain. Then this woman cheats on him and leaves him. The man shoots himself in the heart, but the revolver slips and the bullet perforates his left lung. In hospital, his sister comes to visit and stays by him. He has no one but her, and the theatre...  

Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd for SBS Productions, Jealousy benefitted from a budget of about 2.4 M including notably an advance on receipts from the CNC and the backing of the Ile-de-France region. The release in French theatres is scheduled for December 4 by Capricci Films while international sales are handled by Wild Bunch.

It is also worth noting that France was implicated in the production of seven other candidates for the Golden Lion 2013: A Street in Palermo [+see also:
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by Italian director Emma Dante (coproduced by Slot Machine; sold by Films Distribution), the documentary Sacro GRA [+see also:
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by her compatriot Gianfranco Rosi (coproduced at 50 % by France via Parisian company La Femme Endormie; sales Doc & Film International), Les Terrasses by Algerian director Merzak Allouache (delegate production by JBA Productions – sold by Elle Driver – read the news), Tom à la Ferme by Canadian director Xavier Dolan (coproduced and sold by MK2), Stray Dogs [+see also:
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by Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang (coproduction JBA, sales Urban Distribution International), Philomena [+see also:
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by British director Stephen Frears (coproduced and sold by Pathé) and the Israel-French titles Ana Arabia by Amos Gitaï (coproduced and sold by Agav Films).

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(Translated from French)

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