14/07/2022 - The CNC is also backing new films by Catherine Corsini, Bruno Dumont and Jean-Charles Hue

Director Jacques Audiard (© La Biennale di Venezia - foto ASAC)

Four projects have been selected in the second 2022 session of the CNC’s third advance on receipts committee (for fourth feature films and beyond). Stealing focus among them is Emilia Perez, which will be the 10th feature film by Jacques Audiard (five times a competitor in Cannes, winning the Palme d’Or in 2015 for Dheepan [+see also:
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film profile], the Grand Jury Prize in 2009 for A Prophet [+see also:
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film profile], the Best Screenplay award in 1996, and a Silver Lion for Best Director in Venice 2018 via The Sisters Brothers [+see also:
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film profile], having also competed in Berlin in 2005). A musical on which shooting is due to unfold in the winter, Emilia Perez will notably star Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón. Written by Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain, the story revolves around Rita who works for a large company in Mexico and is tasked with helping the formidable cartel boss Juan "Small Hands" Del Monte to retire from his business and to disappear in order to become the woman he’s always dreamed of embodying. Production is entrusted to French firms Why Not Productions and Page 114 alongside Mexico’s Pimienta Films, with The Veterans (directed by Vincent Maraval and Kim Fox) handling international sales (and CAA Media Finance managing North American regions).

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The CNC is also supporting Catherine Corsini’s Homecoming [+see also:
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film profile], which is the 12th fiction feature film offered up by the filmmaker who has been selected four times in Cannes (including in competition by way of The Divide [+see also:
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film profile] and Replay in 2021 and 2001, respectively). Filming will kick off in September, courtesy of Chaz Productions.

An advance on receipts has likewise been granted to The Empire [+see also:
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film profile], which will be the 11th fiction feature by Bruno Dumont who has previously been selected nine times in Cannes (bagging the Grand Prize in 1999 and 2006 before competing again in 2016, and in 2021 via France [+see also:
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film profile]), once in competition in Venice in 2003 and once in Berlin in 2013). Shooting is due to begin next month, managed by 3B Productions in league with Arte France Cinéma, Belgian outfit Novak Prod, Italy’s Ascent Film and Germany’s Red Balloon Film.

Last but not least, the CNC is also throwing its weight behind Sang crache des lèvres belles, which will be Jean-Charles Hue’s fourth feature film after The Lord’s Ride [+see also:
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film profile] (2020). The story homes in on Marta, an only child to a pair of former anarchic terrorists, who leaves Toulouse hastily, with a bullet lodged in her leg, to travel to her parents in the Pyrenees. Marta rapidly realises that her parents never stopped believing in their revolutionary ideals, which, they’re convinced, will once again become reality when they find their war treasure: an array of gold and weapons which were buried somewhere in the mountains over 20 years ago… Production is entrusted to The Dark, while distribution of the film (which is set to be shot in the winter) will be managed by UFO in France.

(Translated from French)