Louise Wimmer, a woman falling apart
Shooting starts today on the debut narrative feature by Cyril Mennegun, who has won acclaim for his documentaries (in particular Tahar the Student in 2005, featuring Tahar Rahim).
Starring Corinne Masiero, Jean-Marc Roulot and Jérôme Kircher, Louise Wimmer is the portrait of a woman who is almost 50 and on the brink of plunging into marginality. The cast also includes Nicolas Woirion, Marion Ploquin, Marie Kremer and Anne Benoit.
Penned by the director, the screenplay (read at the latest Premiers Plans Film Festival in Angers) centres on Louise, a woman who is about to turn 50. There are days when people say she looks older, and other, increasingly rare days when people say she looks younger.
She has left her former failed life behind her and for the past few months has been leading a complicated existence. For although she is not lacking in determination, autonomy has an unexpected price.
As the weeks go by, one by one she cuts the ties to her past, but also to a possible future. She becomes a woman who lives nowhere, but that’s her secret: she lives in her car on the edge of the motorway. Her sole aim is to find an apartment and start over again. Paulo could reignite her heart: he loves her, he wants her and Louise wavers.
Louise Wimmer is produced by Bruno Nahon for Zadig Films. Its €1.75m budget includes co-production support from Arte France Cinéma, pre-acquisitions from Canal + and Ciné Cinéma, a €500,000 advance on receipts from the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC) and backing from the Ile-de-France (€303,000) and Franche-Comté regions.
The 43-day shoot will take place in the Paris area, then in Belfort (the director’s native city). French theatrical distribution will be handled by Haut et Court, while international sales are still under negotiation.
(Translated from French)
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