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Le coeur régulier: A March shoot for Isabelle Carré

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- Niels Schneider and Fabrizio Rongione are also among the cast of the film by Vanja d’Alcantara, produced by Need Productions and Blue Monday

Le coeur régulier: A March shoot for Isabelle Carré
Actress Isabelle Carré

On 16 March, the first clapperboard will slam for Le coeur régulier [+see also:
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(lit. “The Regular Heart”), the second feature film by Belgian director Vanja d’Alcantara, after Beyond the Steppes (in competition at Locarno in 2010 and nominated for the Magritte Award for Best Film in 2012). Adapted from the novel of the same name by Olivier Adam (his sixth work to get the big-screen treatment, following Welcome [+see also:
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, Don’t Worry, I’m Fine [+see also:
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, Headwinds [+see also:
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, Passer l'hiver [+see also:
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and Lightweight), the film’s cast includes Isabelle Carré (winner of the César Award for Best Actress in 2003 for Try to Remember [+see also:
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and nominated in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2011; popular recently in Marie’s Story [+see also:
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), Niels Schneider (who rose to fame in Heartbeats, was nominated for the Lumière Award for Most Promising Actor in 2014 for Désordres [+see also:
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and will be seen on screens this year in Diamant noir), Belgium’s Fabrizio Rongione (who stars in the TV series Mafiosa, winner of the Magritte Award for Best Actor in 2015 for Two Days, One Night [+see also:
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), and Japanese actors Jun Kunimura, Mugi Kadowaki and Ando Masanobu.

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Penned by the director together with seasoned writer Gilles Taurand (winner of the César Award for Best Screenplay in 1995 and nominated five times since then, including in 2013 for Farewell My Queen [+see also:
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) and Emmanuelle Beaugrand-Champagne, the story revolves around Alice, who, since the death of her brother, has felt increasingly like a stranger in her own life, which up until that point had been “so perfect”. She flees to Japan and takes refuge in a small village at the foot of some cliffs. Nathan used to say he had found peace there, with a certain person called Daïsuké. By retracing the footsteps of her late brother, Alice hopes to get closer to him one last time. But in this strange place, which is at once hostile and welcoming, it is her own life story that she will rediscover.

Produced by Belgian outfit Need Productions and France’s Blue Monday Productions, Le coeur régulier is co-produced by Lunanime (Belgium) and by Canadian organisations Avenida and Acpav. This majority Belgian production is also backed by the CNC’s advance on receipts, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Belgacom, the RTBF, the Cinémage and Cofinova development Soficas, the MEDIA Programme, the Languedoc-Roussillon region, the Franco-Canadian mini-treaty, the Sodec and Téléfilm. The shoot will continue until 2 May in Sète and in Japan (on the Oki Islands), with Ruben Impens (The Broken Circle Breakdown [+see also:
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) serving as DoP. The feature will be distributed by Version Originale/Condor in France, by Lumière in Benelux and by K-Film in Canada. International sales are handled by Doc & Film International.

Blue Monday Productions, whose filmography includes such titles as Goodbye Morocco [+see also:
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by Nadir Moknèche, Lost Paradise [+see also:
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by Eve Deboise and L'Oiseau [+see also:
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by Yves Caumon, currently has A peine j'ouvre les yeux [+see also:
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(lit. “I Barely Open My Eyes”) by Leyla Bouzid in post-production, a feature debut shot in Tunis that recounts the misfortunes of a young, 18-year-old woman who joins a group of committed musicians and discovers freedom, against the wishes of her mother, who knows the country and its prohibitions only too well.

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(Translated from French)

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