This Monday, Yolande Moreau began shooting her third feature as director, La fiancée du poète [+lee también:
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La fiancée du poète follows the trajectory of Mireille Stockaert, a lonely and broken woman. A lover of painting and poetry, she makes do with her job as a waitress in the cafeteria of the Namur School of Fine Arts. Her life is turned upside down when she chooses to live in the large family house she inherits. Three men will upset her routine and prepare her, without knowing it, for the return of a fourth, her great young love.

The director will therefore play the role of Mireille Stockaert, a complex role that she has taken great pleasure in imagining, a somewhat strange woman, "evaporated from the jar," as the director says, but also very manipulative – probably a way of taking on a darker role than those she is usually given.

She will be joined by a strong cast, surrounding herself with three actors with very different profiles: Sergi Lopez, who is a regular for Belgian filmmakers (we saw him in Marion Hansël's latest film Upstream [+lee también:
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entrevista: Albert Serra
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entrevista: Michel Hazanavicius
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entrevista: Catherine Corsini
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The shooting will take place until 28 June in France, in and around Georges Sand's castle, and will be produced by the French company Christmas in July and co-produced by the Belgian company Artémis Productions.