Jean-Stéphane Bron shoots a drama
Having made three feature documentaries – Connu de nos services, La bonne conduite and Le génie helvétique – Mais im Bundeshuus, a political thriller very well received in France (winning over the Swiss with 110 000 admissions, as well as the Swiss Prix du cinéma 2005), young filmmaker Jean-Stéphane Bron (36 ans) directs his first feature work of fiction.
Shooting on Mon frère se marie started on the 18th July in Switzerland, in the region of Lausanne, to be precise. This dramatic comedy relates the colourful surprises of for a torn-apart family who are forced to put aside their disharmony at the occasion of the marriage of their adopted Vietnamese son. Jean-Luc Bideau, Aurore Clément, Delphine Chuillot (Pola X, by Leos Carax), Dung Nguyên, Michèle Rorbach and Cyril Troley interpret the principal roles and French camera-man Mathieu Poirot-Delpech looks after the photography.
70 % produced by the young Swiss company Box Productions (Thierry Spicher) 30 % by Philippe Martin (Les Films Pelléas, France), Mon frère se marie has raised a budget of 2,5 million euros. The film will be distributed in Switzerland by Vega Distribution (Ruth Waldburger) and in France by Haut et Court.
(Translated from French)
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