CRRAV backs Dumont’s Hors Satan
Among the five narrative features included in the first 2010 selection by the CRRAV (Nord-Pas de Calais regional fund) is Bruno Dumont’s sixth feature: Hors Satan.
After Hadewijch [+see also:
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Hors Satan is produced by 3B Productions for €2.5m, including backing from Arte, a pre-sale from Canal + and €175,000 from the CRRAV. The film will be set on the shores of the Channel on the Côte d’Opale.
Near a hamlet, river and marshes, dwells a strange fellow who lives from hand to mouth, poaches, prays, and lights fires. He is close to a farmer’s daughter who looks after him and feeds him.
By murdering the girl’s father, who is violent towards her, helping a kid who is seized by strange pains and killing a guard, this fellow drives evil away from the hamlet and its inhabitants, in a fight against the Devil, until a miracle occurs.
The CRRAV will also grant €200,000 to Vincent Garenq’s Présumé Coupable (“Presumed Guilty”, see news), produced by Nord Ouest Productions, in co-production with France 3 Cinéma.
Starring Philippe Torreton and Noémie Lvovsky, the film will start shooting in early April. It will recount the ordeal of Alain Marécaux, the bailiff who was arrested in 2001, along with his wife and 12 other people, as part of the Outreau case, when they were charged with awful acts of paedophilia they had never committed.
The Nord-Pas de Calais region will also support Cédric Klapisch’s Ma Part du Gâteau (“My Slice of the Cake”, see news), starring Karin Viard; Miel Van Hoogenbemt and Dominique Sampiero’s Only Son (produced by Liaison Cinématographique - to be distributed by Pyramide); and Srinath Samarasinghe’s A Cloud in a Glass of Water (Avenue B Productions).
(Translated from French)
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