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Reel Suspects pins its hopes on Out of This World

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- The French sales agent has added Marc Fouchard’s film, which won the Grand Prix at the Cognac Crime Film Festival, to its line-up and will unveil it online at the 23rd Rendez-Vous with French Cinema

Reel Suspects pins its hopes on Out of This World
Kevin Mischel in Out of This World

Specialising in "elevated genre", French international sales agent Reel Suspects managed to get through 2020, a complicated year for us all on account of the health crisis. Indeed, it inked some great deals for the thriller Ropes [+see also:
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by Spaniard José Luis Montesinos and a real revelation in the Venice International Film Critics’ Week, the intense, warped Lithuanian war film The Flood Won’t Come [+see also:
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by Armenian director Marat Sargsyan, among other movies. In addition, Matteo Lovadina’s team is about to play another trump card with Out of This World [+see also:
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by Marc Fouchard, which will have its market premiere at the 23rd Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris, an event that, in a change to the usual procedure, will be organised online by Unifrance from 13-15 January (via a dedicated secure site on Cinando).

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Out of This World, the second feature by the French filmmaker, following Break [+see also:
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(2018), won the Grand Prix at the Cognac Crime Film Festival in October last year. Toplining the movie are Kevin Mischel (who rose to prominence in Divines [+see also:
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and who is working with the director again after he did so in Break) and Aurélia Poirier (Best Actress Award at Les Arcs in 2012 for The Fifth Season [+see also:
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). Also among the cast are Geneviève Casile, June Assal, Jean-Louis Garçon, Claire Ganaye, Dominique Frot, Leslie Carles, Patrick Fouchard, Martin Pautard and Tadrina Hocking.

Written by Marc Fouchard himself, the story revolves around Léo, a very shy man who has trouble communicating with others. Only music makes him feel alive and more open-minded. However, he cannot afford to live off his music, and so he works as a taxi driver and lives in his own car. One day, Léo picks up Amélie, a deaf dancer. He seems charmed by her, and Amélie is also attracted to him.

Produced by Julien Russo and Gilles Commaille for Dacor Productions (a company that is staging its first feature with this title), Out of This World sees Pascal Boudet on board as DoP and Cyesm in charge of the score.

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(Translated from French)

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