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Casanova, Last Love: Vincent Lindon and Stacy Martin working with Benoît Jacquot

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- Valeria Golino and Antonythasan Jesuthasan are also among the cast of this production being staged by Les Films du Lendemain and JPG Films, which will be sold by Elle Driver

Casanova, Last Love: Vincent Lindon and Stacy Martin working with Benoît Jacquot
Actor Vincent Lindon, director Benoît Jacquot and actress Stacy Martin

The first clapperboard will slam in March for Casanova, Last Love [+see also:
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(working title: Mr. Casanova), the 25th feature by Benoît Jacquot, who continues to make one film after another at a very steady pace. Indeed, his last opus to date, Eva [+see also:
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, will be screened in two weeks' time at the Berlin Film Festival, where the filmmaker has been selected in competition for the third time, following Farewell My Queen [+see also:
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 in 2012 and Diary of a Chambermaid [+see also:
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 in 2015. He has also taken part in competition once at Cannes (The School of Flesh in 1998) and four times at Venice (Seventh Heaven in 1997, No Scandal in 1999, The Untouchable [+see also:
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 in 2006 and 3 Hearts [+see also:
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 in 2014).

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The cast of Casanova (a character who has already served as inspiration for myriad directors, including Fellini) includes Vincent Lindon (Best Actor Award at Cannes in 2015 and César Award for Best Actor in 2016 for The Measure of a Man [+see also:
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, and who we will see in mid-February in The Apparition and later on this year in Un autre monde), Stacy Martin (who rose to fame in Nymphomaniac [+see also:
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, was popular in such titles as Taj Mahal [+see also:
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 and Redoubtable [+see also:
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, and will be on the cinema listings this year in Amanda and Treat Me Like Fire), Italy’s Valeria Golino (crowned with the Best Actress Award at Venice in 1986 and 2015, nominated eight times for the David di Donatello Award for Best Actress, winning it in 2006) and Sri Lanka’s Antonythasan Jesuthasan (nominated for the César Award for Best Actor in 2016 for Dheepan [+see also:
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Q&A: Jacques Audiard
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).

Written by Benoît Jacquot, Jérôme Beaujour (nominated for the César Award for Best Adaptation in 2009 for Love Me No More [+see also:
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) and Chantal Thomas (Farewell My QueenChildren Royals [+see also:
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), the story sees Charpillon present Casanova with a truly exasperating challenge: you can only have me if you stop wanting me.

Casanova, Last Love will be executive-produced by Kristina Larsen for Les Films du Lendemain and by Jean-Pierre Guérin for JPG Films, and co-produced by France 3 Cinéma and Czech outfit Sirena Film. Having also been pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature will be shot over eight weeks between March and May in Ile-de-France, the UK and the Czech Republic. The French distribution will be handled by Diaphana and the international sales by Elle Driver.

As a reminder, Les Films du Lendemain previously worked with Benoît Jacquot on Farewell My Queen and Diary of a Chambermaid.

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(Translated from French)

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