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Nicolas Maury’s My Best Part enters into post-production

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- The actor is leading the cast of his first feature film as a director, a CG Cinema production sold by Les Films du Losange, starring alongside Nathalie Baye, Arnaud Valois and Laure Calamy

Nicolas Maury’s My Best Part enters into post-production
Actor-director Nicolas Maury

Shot over five weeks spanning October and November in Limoges and in Paris, My Best Part [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nicolas Maury
interview: Nicolas Maury
film profile
]
, the first full-length film directed by the actor Nicolas Maury (well received in The Bare Necessity [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Erwan Le Duc
film profile
]
, Knife + Heart [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nicolas Maury
interview: Yann Gonzalez
film profile
]
and You and the Night [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
, not to mention the TV series Call My Agent!, and whom we’ll be seeing in Spellbound [+see also:
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film profile
]
, which hits French cinemas as of 11 December) - who will also be stepping into the film’s lead role - has now entered into post-production.

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Acting alongside him in the cast are Nathalie Baye (recently well received in It’s Only the End of the World [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
and The Guardians [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Xavier Beauvois
film profile
]
), Arnaud Valois (crowned Best New Actor at the 2018 Lumières Awards and nominated Best New Hope in the Césars that same year for BPM (Beats Per Minute) [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Arnaud Valois
interview: Robin Campillo
film profile
]
; also at his best in Our Wonderful Lives [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Fabienne Godet
film profile
]
) and Laure Calamy (recently very well received in Mademoiselle de Joncquières [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Emmanuel Mouret
film profile
]
and Sibyl [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Justine Triet
film profile
]
, hitting French cinemas tomorrow in Only the Animals [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Dominik Moll
film profile
]
, as well as on 15 January in Une belle équipe and at some point in 2020 in Cévennes). The cast is rounded off by Dominique Reymond, Laurent Capelluto, Jean-Marc Barr, Roxane Mesquida and Théo Christine.

Written by Nicolas Maury, Sophie Fillières and Maud Ameline (nominated for the Best Screenplay César in 2013 via Camille Rewinds [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
and in the same category of the 2018 Lumières Awards for Until the Birds Return [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Karim Moussaoui
film profile
]
), the story centres around Jérémie, a sickly and jealous man ravaged by setbacks in his love life, his working life and his family life. Having reached breaking point, he decides to leave Paris and heads home towards his native region, Limousin, where he will try to fix himself in the company of a very intrusive mother.

Produced by Charles Gillibert on behalf of CG Cinéma, My Best Part is co-produced by Mother Production and benefits from the support of the CNC – in the form of an advance on earnings - as well as that of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region and the SOFICA company Cinémage. French distribution and international sales will be steered by Les Films du Losange.

For the record, other CG Cinéma works of note currently in post-production include Annette [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
by Leos Carax (with Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver heading up the cast), Bergman Island [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mia Hansen-Løve
film profile
]
by Mia Hansen-Løve and Gold for Dogs [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
by Anna Cazenave Cambet.

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(Translated from French)

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