Artémis (2): Doillon shoots Le premier venu in France
Over the Belgian border, Picardy will host the six-week shoot of Jacques Doillon’s Le premier venu [+see also:
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Co-produced by Artémis, executive producer with Liaison cinématographique (a French outfit set up by Artémis) Samsa Film and Nord-Ouest Production, the €1.37m film has been funded by CNC advances on receipts, French distributor Pyramide and Cinéart – who have acquired rights to the title for the Benelux countries – and pre-sales from television channels Canal+ and RTBF.
After the excellent Raja, presented in official competition at the 2003 Venice Film Festival, Le premier venu sees the French director revisit his favourite theme: the highs and lows of teenage life.
The director has again cast two actors he discovered, Gérald Thomassin (The Little Gangster, 1991) and Guillaume Saurrel (Carrément à l'Ouest, 2001), alongside talented actress Clémentine Beaugrand, who will play a young girl from a well-off family who no longer knows who she is, gets bored and decides to love in the most selfless way, by giving her feelings to the “first to arrive”.
Meanwhile, Alain Berliner’s latest film Gone for a Dance (see interview) is ready for its theatrical release.
Man zoekt Vrouw, the second feature by Miel van Hoogenbemt after Miss Montigny [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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