30/11/2006

Shooting will begin in January on Un baiser s'il vous plait (lit. "A Kiss Please"), the latest film by young French actor-director Emmanuel Mouret, who has chosen as his co-stars Virginie Ledoyen and most probably Italy’s Stefano Accorsi.

In Rome yesterday for the presentation of Change of Address [+see also:
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In the meantime, Change of Address, very well received in the Directors Fortnight at Cannes, came out in France in June, opened the 11th edition of the RomaFilmFestival yesterday evening and will be released on 20 screens in Italy on December 6 by Lady Film .

Starring Mouret, Fanny Valette, Frédérique Bel and Dany Brillant, Change of Address is a entertaining comedy that revolves around a shy, awkward musician who falls madly in love with one of his students. "I love awkward characters, who have to adapt to life. They allow me to create comical situations as well as delve into deeper themes".

At Cannes, references to Woody Allen and François Truffaut were used to describe Mouret’s dense and humour-filled dialogue. The director humbly finds the comparisons to be exaggerated but "they are certainly [the directors] who made me want to make films, who inspired my characters’ fatalism, along with the great 'fools' created by Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton".

(Translated from Italian)