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The CNC gives an advance on receipts to Arnaud Desplechin’s Oh Mercy!

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- The CNC will also be throwing its weight behind films by Hélier Cisterne, Jean-Stéphane Bron, Philippe Lacôte, Olivier Babinet, Edouard Bergeon and Delphine Deloget

The CNC gives an advance on receipts to Arnaud Desplechin’s Oh Mercy!
Director Arnaud Desplechin

Seven projects have been accepted during the CNC’s second advance on receipts committee’s second session of 2018. Standing out among them is Oh Mercy! [+see also:
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, which will be the tenth feature-length fiction film by Arnaud Desplechin, and will feature a cast comprising Roschdy Zem (Best Actor Award at Cannes in 2006 for Days of Glory [+see also:
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, nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2000, 2006 and 2009), Antoine Reinartz (César Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2018 for BPM (Beats Per Minute) [+see also:
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) and Sara Forestier (César Award for Best Actress in 2011 for The Names of Love [+see also:
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and nominated in 2014 for Suzanne [+see also:
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, nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2016 for Standing Tall [+see also:
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). Written by the director together with Léa Mysius, the story begins in Roubaix, one night at Christmas. Police Chief Daoud roams the city, with its burnt-out cars and violent altercations… In the face of poverty, deception and distress, Daoud knows who is lying and who is telling the truth. Fresh out of the police academy, Louis has recently joined Daoud's crew. Young, awkward and easily misled, he constantly misunderstands those he encounters. Daoud and Louis are confronted with the murder of an old woman. The old woman's neighbours – two young women, Claude and Marie – are arrested. They are addicts, alcoholics and lovers… They terrify Louis. But Daoud never judges them. He speaks, and he listens to them. Using words, and rising above the horror of their crime, Daoud will find a way to give the two murderers back their humanity.

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The movie, produced by Pascal Caucheteux for Why Not Productions, is being sold overseas by Wild Bunch. For the record, Arnaud Desplechin has taken part in the Cannes competition five times (in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008 and 2013) and participated once in the competition at Venice (in 2004). His two latest opuses, My Golden Days [+see also:
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and Ismael's Ghosts [+see also:
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, were also unveiled on the Croisette in 2015 (in the Directors’ Fortnight) and in 2017 (as the opening film, out of competition).

An advance on receipts will also go to Faithful [+see also:
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by Hélier Cisterne (who wrote the screenplay together with Katell Quillévéré), which will be the second feature by the filmmaker, following Vandal [+see also:
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(Louis-Delluc Award for Best Debut Film in 2013). Production duties will be handled by Justin Taurand for Les Films du Bélier.

Another advance has been granted to Night of the Kings [+see also:
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by Philippe Lacôte (a Banshee Films production), who turned heads at Cannes in 2014 (in Un Certain Regard, with his feature debut, Run [+see also:
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), and to Poissonsexe by Olivier Babinet (co-written by David Elkaim), the third feature by the director, after Robert Mitchum est mort [+see also:
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and the documentary Swagger [+see also:
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(nominated for the César Award in its respective category in 2017).

The CNC will also be backing three docs: The Brain [+see also:
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by Switzerland’s Jean-Stéphane Bron (Cleveland Versus Wall Street [+see also:
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, The Blocher Experiment [+see also:
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, The Paris Opera [+see also:
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), which will be staged by Les Films Pelléas, Et j’aime à la fureur by André Bonzel (which has no production company attached for the time being) and Là-haut perchés by Raphaël Mathié (La Luna Productions).

Meanwhile, the CNC’s first advance on receipts committee has selected four feature-debut projects: In the Name of the Land [+see also:
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 by Edouard Bergeon (who penned the screenplay together with Bruno Ulmer and Emmanuel Courcol – produced by Nord-Ouest Films), Rodéo by Delphine Deloget (Unité de Production), Cuties [+see also:
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 by Maïmouna Doucouré (co-written with Nathalie Saugeon, Alice Winocour and Valentine Milville – Bien ou Bien Productions) and the documentary project Days of Cannibalism [+see also:
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 by Teboho Edkins (production duties handled by KinoElektron).

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(Translated from French)

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