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PRODUCTION / FUNDING France

Lisa Diaz is midway through filming Time to Get Away!

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- Grégory Montel, Laetitia Dosch, Lolita Chammah and Simone Liberati lead the cast of this À Perte de Vue production, co-produced by Les Films d'Antoine

Lisa Diaz is midway through filming Time to Get Away!
Actor Grégory Montel and actresses Laetitia Dosch and Lolita Chammah (© Georges Biard)

The first half of filming on Lisa Diaz’s Time to Get Away! [+see also:
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wrapped on 13 August, having kicked off on 19 July, with shooting due to resume in September, before the final clapperboard slams on 1 October. This will be the first feature film offered up by the director who previously turned heads with short works such as Eva voudrait (a 55-minute film selected for Clermont-Ferrand’s national competition this year).

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The cast includes youngsters Azou Gardahaut Petiteau and Jeanne Vallet de Villeneuve, who are flanked by Grégory Montel (of Perfumes [+see also:
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interview: Grégory Magne
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]
and the series Call My Agent!), Laetitia Dosch (awarded the Best Newcomer Lumières prize in 2018 and nominated for the Best New Hope César via Montparnasse Bienvenue [+see also:
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interview: Léonor Serraille
film profile
]
, currently touring cinemas in Simple Passion [+see also:
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interview: Danielle Arbid
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]
and soon to be seen in Ils sont vivants, among other works), Lolita Chammah (Barrage [+see also:
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interview: Laura Schroeder
film profile
]
) and Italy’s Simone Liberati (Pure Hearts [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Roberto De Paolis
film profile
]
).

Written by the director in collaboration with Clara Bourreau (Fidelio: Alice’s Journey [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Lucie Borleteau
film profile
]
), Anne-Louise Trividic (nominated for the 2006 Best Adapted Screenplay César by way of Gabrielle [+see also:
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]
) and Chile’s René Ballesteros (and developed at the Ateliers d’Angers as well as the Boostcamp residency), the story plunges us into the summer of 1982. Garance is 11 years old and lives in a remote village in the Cévennes where her parents are attempting to lead an alternative existence. She roams her vast territory in the company of a gang of dishevelled children and, armed with her vivid imagination, arranges all kinds of political games for them, nationalising toys and setting up a pirate radio station, etc. It’s at this point in time that two Italian activists rob a bank in the area. It goes wrong but one of them manages to escape, with the full contingent of the police force on his heels. This stirs up political squabbles between Garance’s parents, Simon and Marie. Indeed, the latter seems to despair that their hopes for radical change in the world are slowly ebbing away. Garance learns that the Italian fugitive is hiding in a barn not far from their home. Surely coming to his aid would help to continue the revolutionary fight, and would allow her to become an apprentice activist herself?

Produced by Colette Quesson on behalf of À Perte de Vue Film and co-produced by Antoine Simkine for Les Films d'Antoine, Time to Get Away! benefits from a CNC advance on receipts and from production support courtesy of the Brittany and Occitanie regions. The feature film will be distributed in French cinemas by Nour Films.

For the record, Les Films d’Antoine are currently overseeing funding for Submergée which will be Alanté Kavaïté’s 3rd feature film (The Summer of Sangaile [+see also:
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interview: Alanté Kavaïté
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]
).

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(Translated from French)

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