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Breathless chase for Dupontel in La Proie

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A bank robber, a serial killer and a police woman are at the centre of La Proie (“The Prey”, working title), the fifth feature by Eric Valette (Maléfique, State Affairs [+see also:
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). The film, which started shooting yesterday, belongs to a strand of genre films that is being explored more and more in France.

The cast includes Albert Dupontel (director and star of The Villain [+see also:
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which garnered 922,000 admissions; also to be seen as of August 25 in Bertrand Blier’s The Sound of Ice Cubes), Alice Taglioni (The Easy Way [+see also:
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), Stéphane Debac (set to appear from August 11 in Stranded), Zinedine Soualem (The Names of Love [+see also:
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) and Belgian actress Natacha Régnier (Orly [+see also:
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).

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Scripted by Laurent Turner and Luc Bossi, the film centres on a bank robber (Dupontel) accused of the crimes committed by his former cellmate, a serial killer (Debac).

Having escaped from prison, he sets out in search of the killer, but is himself tracked down by a police woman (Taglioni). There follows a breathless chase between the three protagonists across provincial France (industrial estates, housing developments and small villages).

La Proie is produced by Bossi for Brio Films. Its €9.7m budget includes co-production support from StudioCanal and Germany’s Kinowelt, as well as pre-acquisitions from Canal + and Ciné Cinéma.

Shooting is scheduled to last 11 weeks in the area around Toulon and Nice (l'Escarène, Sospel, Luceram), Paris and Prague. StudioCanal will manage French theatrical distribution and international sales.

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(Translated from French)

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