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Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi to direct Actrice

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After her remarkable debut in 2003 with It’s Easier for a Camel…, winner of the Louis Delluc Award for best first film, which garnered 42,000 admissions), actress Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi will start filming her second feature, Actrice (lit. “Actress”) in Paris, in which she will star alongside Jean-Hugues Anglade, Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvosky and Maurice Garrel. Successively called Ce soir, on va au théâtre, then Ma vie de femme and developed initially at Gémini Films, the project was finally put together by Olivier Delbosc and Marc Missonnier at Fidélité Productions.

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The Italian/French actress/director has decided to keep some of the ingredients that made It’s Easier for a Camel… a success, notably her on-screen collaboration with Anglade and her writing partners Lvovsky and Agnès de Sacy. Actrice is based on the autobiographic misadventures of a single and childless 40 year-old actress who begins rehearsals of Turgenev’s play A Month in the Country. As she prepares to enter the role of the character Natalia Petrovna (a married woman who falls helplessly for a student, a role that Bruni-Tedeschi played in the theatre in 2000), the actress is supported by her director (Anglade), one of her most fervent admirers. He helps her get to a place where she is happy with her work and turns her into a veritable princess of the boards. Yet these promises will soon burn out.

Production is scheduled to begin on March 1 in the Bois de Boulogne and run through the end of April, with a theatrical release scheduled for 2007. Having benefited from an advance on receipts of €350,000 from the National Film Centre (CNC), Actrice will be released in France by Pan Européenne Distribution and sold internationally by Wild Bunch.

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(Translated from French)

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