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Alice Isaaz and Jacqueline Bisset are filming The Lodger

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- The two actresses lead the cast of Baptiste Drapeau first feature film, which is steered by Capricci in league with Mon Ballon Productions and will be sold by WTFilms

Alice Isaaz and Jacqueline Bisset are filming The Lodger
Actresses Alice Isaaz and Jacqueline Bisset

The first clapperboard slammed in Bordeaux yesterday for The Lodger [+see also:
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, the first full-length work by Baptiste Drapeau, a young filmmaker known for the shorts he authored as a student at La Fémis (La Mangeuse d’homme in 2018, Canine Panique in 2017 and animated film Moitié-moitié).

Starring in the cast are Alice Isaaz (nominated Most Promising Young Actress at the 2015 Lumières Awards for Smart Ass [+see also:
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, well received in Mademoiselle de Joncquières [+see also:
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, La On the Sly [+see also:
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, Elle [+see also:
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, Endangered Species [+see also:
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, and hitting French cinemas on 1 January in Play [+see also:
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and again on 26 February in L’État sauvage), America’s Jacqueline Bisset (who has just finished shooting Madeleine Collins – read our article), François Dominique Blin (a familiar face from French TV series, known on the big screen for his role in Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart [+see also:
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) and Bastien Ughetto (seen in The Wolf’s Call [+see also:
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and touring French cinemas next year in Forte and Adieu les cons).

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Written by Ollivier Briand (to whom we owe the idea for the film), Mauricio Carrasco and Baptiste Drapeau, the story centres around Julie who, following her mother’s death, leaves the rural lands she has grown up in in order to begin an auxiliary nursing course in a big town. She moves in with Elizabeth, an elderly lady who gives her a room in exchange for a few favours. Jacqueline lost her husband Victor twenty years previously and has never accepted his passing. She continues to live as if he were still there and, implicitly, asks Julie to play along. Thus begins an unbearable menage à trois…

The Lodger is produced by Thierry Lounas on behalf of Capricci, with Baptiste Bauduin Lauben and Marie Ballon of Mon Ballon Productions taking on the role of associate producers. Filming will continue in Bordeaux until 29 November, with François Ray (who likewise graduated from La Fémis in 2018, having worked with the director on his earlier short works) in charge of cinematography. Capricci will manage distribution in French cinemas (via Les Bookmakers, the dedicated body which the group co-founded in league with The Jokers), while international sales are in the hands of WTFilms.

For the record, Capricci’s post-production slate currently includes The Swarm [+see also:
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interview: Just Philippot
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by Just Philippot, while works previously produced by the firm include Albert Serra’s Last Days of Louis XIV [+see also:
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, Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini [+see also:
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and Jean-Charles Hue’s Eat Your Bones [+see also:
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(Translated from French)

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