After several days of filming in January, shooting on Romain de Saint-Blanquat’s debut feature film La Morsure is now in full swing, with its 25-day set scheduled to wrap on 31 March.

Eye-catching names in the cast include Léonie Dahan-Lamort (whom we’ll soon be seeing in Les Braves), Lilith Grasmug (recently at her absolute best in Bloody Oranges [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Anamaria Vartolomei
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Penned by Romain de Saint-Blanquat, the story takes us back to Shrove Tuesday in 1967. Seventeen-year-old Françoise is a boarder in a Catholic High School. Convinced she only has one night to live before she dies, she sneaks out with her friend Delphine to attend a costume party and live this night as if it were her last.

Produced by Marc-Benoit Créancier on behalf of Easy Tiger, Bitten [+leggi anche:
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For the record, Easy Tiger have just won this year’s Best First Film César via Vincent Maël Cardona’s Magnetic Beats [+leggi anche:
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