18/10/2010

Six feature film screenplays were selected in mid-October by the second advance on receipts committee of the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC). Among them is Robin Campillo’s Eastern Boys, which will be produced by Hughes Charbonneau for Les Films de Pierre and is scheduled to shoot in summer 2011.

Editor on all Laurent Cantet’s features, Campillo also co-wrote Cannes Palme d’Or-winner The Class [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Carole Scotta
interview: Laurent Cantet
film profile] (which earned him Best Adapted Screenplay Cesar 2009), Heading South [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Laurent Cantet
interview: Robin Campillo
interview: Simon Arnal-Szlovak
film profile] and Time Out. His debut directorial feature, They Came Back, was selected in the Horizons section at the Venice Mostra 2004.

Eastern Boys centres on some boys from Eastern countries (Poland, Russia, Romania…), the oldest being perhaps 25. We don’t know how old the youngest ones are. They hang around near the Gare de l’Est railway station. They appear to be prostitutes.

Muller, a discreet man of nearly 60, has spotted one of them: Marek. One day, Muller makes a move and goes to talk to him. The young man agrees to see him again the following day, at Muller’s home. The next day, when there is a ring at the door, Muller has no idea he is about to fall into a trap.

The five other projects set to receive an advance on receipts from the CNC are Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s Les Chants de Mandrin (“Mandrin’s Songs”, currently shooting – see news – Sarrazink Productions); Today by Alain Gomis (who won acclaim for As A Man, winner of the Best Debut Film Leopard at Locarno in 2001, and was selected in Venice Days 2007 with Andalucia [+see also:
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film profile]); Christine Laurent’s Demain (“Tomorrow”, Mact Productions); animated project Le Secret de Loulou (“Loulou’s Secret”) by Swiss directors Samuel and Frédéric Guillaume (acclaimed for Max & Co [+see also:
trailer
film profile]), to be produced by Prima Linea; and Nicolas Philibert ’s next documentary: La Maison de la Radio (“The Radio House”, Les Films d'Ici).

(Translated from French)