Laffite and Jaoui star in Cauvin’s L'Art de la Fugue
On September 20, shooting will start on Brice Cauvin’s second feature, L'Art de la Fugue, an adaptation of US writer Stephen McCauley’s novel “The Easy Way Out”. The director attracted attention in 2006 with Hotel Harabati [+see also:
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L'Art de la Fugue boasts a cast including Laurent Laffite (Little White Lies [+see also:
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Co-written by Cauvin and Raphaëlle Desplechin (with Jaoui acting as consultant), the script centres on Antoine (Laffite): his job as a tour operator, his partner with whom he is planning to buy a house, his colleague and friend Ariel (Jaoui), his brothers the neurotic Gérard and engaged-to-be-married Louis, his father with a heart condition and his cantankerous mother…
Everything is going well, but nothing is right: he doesn’t want the house, Gérard can’t get over his ex-wife, Louis is cheating on his wife-to-be… And Ariel sweeps through this little world like a hurricane. Adept at the "art of finding a way out", Antoine will have to make a decision…
Produced by Georges Fernandez for Hérodiade, L'Art de la Fugue will have a 30-day shoot in Paris, Ile-de-France and Brussels. The film is entirely financed by private investors along the lines of the economic model adopted by Hérodiade which, since its creation in 2007, has co-produced titles including Bertrand Blier’s The Clink of Ice [+see also:
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L'Art de la Fugue will be launched in French theatres in the second half of 2012 by DistriB Films.
(Translated from French)
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