20/08/2013 - The Belgian director just began the filming of her first feature film in Brussels, Tous les chats sont gris (la nuit), with Bouli Lanners and Anne Coesens

Paul is 43 years old. He works as a private investigator and is single. Dorothy is nearly 16, and she is going through an identity crisis. He lived on the margins of the well-thinking society of Brussels, she grew up in the midst of it. The only thing that links them is that Paul knows he is Dorothy’s biological father. As the years went by, he lived with this secret and fondly watched her grow up from afar, without ever daring to come close... They probably would never have talked if Dorothy hadn’t one day decided to knock on his door. She heard about his detective work and would like him to help her find her biological father.  

For her first film, Tous les chats sont gris, Savina Dellicour offers a variation on a classic motif: the family secret dynamited by a teenager’s crisis. By trying to expose things unsaid, Dorothy, an adolescent without problems, will force her parents to confront their past and, especially, realize that it is not so much the actions they are hiding but the secret itself that could turn out to be toxic.

If Tous les chats sont gris is a first feature, Savina Dellicour has a solid career behind her. The director of a dozen short films, she worked for a long time in the United Kingdom, notably for Channel 4 (she directed several episodes of the soap Hollyoaks).

As for the cast, to surround Dorothy, played by newcomer Manon Capelle, Dellicour chose the best of Belgian cinema. In the role of Paul, the lonely detective, we find Bouli Lanners, whose projects we cannot count anymore. And in the role of the mother, the discrete but always impeccable Anne Coesens, seen in Illegal [+see also:
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Produced by Tarantula with a budget of 1.4 million euros, with backing from the CCA and Wallimage, the movie, whose filming just started, will be shot entirely in Brussels until September 22.