PRODUCTION / FUNDING France / Belgium
Vincent Lindon toplining Delphine and Muriel Coulin’s À la hauteur
- The actor, who is joined by thesps such as Benjamin Voisin, is currently filming the sisters’ new movie, produced by Felicita Films and Curiosa Films
Since mid-May, and shrouded in the utmost secrecy, Delphine and Muriel Coulin have been shooting À la hauteur (lit. “Up to the Standard”), their third feature, following 17 Girls [+see also:
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interview: Delphine and Muriel Coulin
film profile] (Best Screenplay Award in Un Certain Regard in 2016). Standing out among the cast are Vincent Lindon (Best Actor Award at Cannes in 2015 for The Measure of a Man [+see also:
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interview: Stéphane Brizé
film profile], a performance that also earned him the César and the Lumière Awards for Best Actor in 2016; nominated five further times for the César in this category; popular recently in Titane [+see also:
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interview: Julia Ducournau, Vincent Li…
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interview: Stéphane Brizé
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interview: Xavier Giannoli
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An adaptation by the directorial duo of the novel What You Need from the Night by Laurent Petitmangin, the script tells a family story rooted in Lorraine, about a railway-worker father and his two sons, following the death of their mother.
Produced by Marie Guillaumond for Felicita Films and by Olivier Delbosc for Curiosa Films, À la hauteur is being co-produced by France 3 Cinéma and by Belgium’s Umedia. The film, which has been pre-purchased by France Télévisions and Canal+, also boasts support from the Grand Est region, where the entirety of the shoot will take place until mid-July, with Belgian DoP Frédéric Noirhomme (Playground [+see also:
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interview: Laura Wandel
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As a reminder, Curiosa Films, which recently premiered The Pot au Feu [+see also:
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interview: Delphine Deloget
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interview: Cédric Kahn
film profile] by Cédric Kahn, The Braid by Laetitia Colombani, and the comedy Open Season by Frédéric Forestier and Antonin Fourlon (release on 20 December) in post-production.
(Translated from French)
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