03/06/2019 - Karin Viard, Vincent Macaigne, Nicole Garcia and Hélène Vincent also star in the actor-director’s first feature film, a Trésor Films production sold by StudioCanal

Filming kicked off today on The Origin of the World [+see also:
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Also featuring among the cast and flanking Lafitte are Karin Viard (winner of the Best Actress César 2000, and nominated for the same award in 2005, 2012, 2015 for The Bélier Family [+see also:
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Q&A: François Ozon
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Laurent Lafitte’s adaptation of Sébastien Thiéry’s eponymous play revolves around 40-year-old Jean-Louis who realises, as he makes his way home, that his heart is no longer beating. Is he alive? Is he dead? Feeling as if he’s living on borrowed time, he investigates, he agonises. Neither his veterinarian friend nor his wife Valérie can give him the answers he needs to appease the panic he feels. Valérie’s holistic life coach is the only one who can help Jean-Louis. But in order for her to do so, he must follow her advice and return to the source of his problems: his mother; or, more precisely, his mother’s genitals, which he will have to take a photo of…

Produced by Alain Attal on behalf of Trésor Films, The Origin of the World is co-produced by France 2 Cinéma, StudioCanal, 2L Productions and Belgian outfit Artémis Productions. Shooting on this feature film, which has been pre-purchased by Canal+, will continue in Paris until 26 July. 

Scooping the 12th Daniel Toscan du Plantier Prize for Best Producer in 2018, Alain Attal recently knocked out Sink or Swim [+see also:
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interview: Régis Roinsard
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(Translated from French)