13/03/2006

Shooting kicked off today on Claude Berri’s new feature, Ensemble, c'est tout (lit. “Together, That’s All”), which stars two of the most emblematic actors of the new French generation: Audrey Tautou and Guillaume Canet. Adapted from the best-selling 2004 novel by Anne Gavalda, the film tells the story of four very different people who share a large apartment.

Appearing to have nothing in common other than their inability to integrate with a society marked by solitude, they get to know, and even love, one another, to form a family of sorts. Taking on the role that Charlotte Gainsbourg would have played had she not had a skiing accident, Tautou plays Camille, a strange young woman who cleans offices at night even though she is a very talented illustrator. Canet plays Franck, a cook who is uncouth on the surface but tender deep down, and who looks after his grandmother Paulette, a fragile old woman with a great sense of humour whom he has freed from a nursing home. Then there is timid, intellectual Philibert, a fading young aristocrat who puts the three others up in his apartment, to be played by theatre actor Laurent Strocker, who stood out last year in Philippe Collin’s Aux abois (lit. “At Bay”).

Produced by Pathé Renn Productions and Hirsch, Ensemble, c'est tout will require 11 weeks shooting in Paris and the region.

The film will be released in France in the first quarter of 2007 by Pathé, which is also handling international sales. By then Audrey Tautou will have passed on to even greater international fame, with her role in Ron Howard’s Da Vinci Code, which will debut on May 17 at the Cannes Film Festival.

(Translated from French)