28/10/2011

On November 14, shooting will start in Brittany on Hervé Lasgouttes’s debut feature, Crawl, starring Swann Arlaud. The cast also includes young actress Nina Meurisse (who had a minor role in Twiggy [+see also:
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Co-scripted by the director and Loic Delafoulhouze, the film centres on Martin, a good-looking but highly unsociable young man. Unable to hold down any job for long and surviving on very little money, he lives with his father in an old dilapidated house where all he does is sleep.

But he has recently started going out with the mysterious Gwen who lives alone in a mobile home and works at the fish canning factory, saving up to go away to Mexico to take part in the high-seas competition. But she falls pregnant with Martin’s baby. A determined young woman, she accepts this pregnancy.

Meanwhile, Martin continues with his dead-end jobs and petty theft, and seems unaware that he is soon to be a father. Until the day he is accused of murder…

Produced by Stéphanie Douet for Sensito Films (who are handling their first feature after producing 26 shorts since 2003), Crawl has received an advance on receipts from the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC) and a grant from the Brittany region. The five-week shoot will take place until mid-December in Finistère, in the Quimper area. French distribution and international sales are still under negotiation.

(Translated from French)