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Advance on receipts from the CNC for Antonin Peretjatko’s La loi de la jungle

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- The CNC will also be backing films by Verhoeven, Vecchiali, Richard-Serrano, Ben Attia, Verheyde and Arrieta

Advance on receipts from the CNC for Antonin Peretjatko’s La loi de la jungle
Director Antonin Peretjatko

Seven feature-film projects have been accepted during the fifth and final 2014 session of the second committee of the CNC’s advance on receipts. Among them is La loi de la jungle [+see also:
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by Antonin Peretjatko, which will be the second feature by the highly original young filmmaker, who rose to fame last year at the Cannes Director’s Fortnight with his debut film (The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu [+see also:
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– read the interview). His next movie, an absurd, offbeat comedy set against a political backdrop, will star Vimala Pons, Vincent Macaigne, Mathieu Amalric and André Dussollier. Staged by Alice Girard for Rectangle Productions, the feature, which has also received backing from France 3 Cinéma, Canal+, the French Guiana region and the Gan Foundation, will begin shooting in June.

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The CNC will also be supporting Elle [+see also:
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 by Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, which is already backed by Arte France Cinéma (read the news). The French-language film is executive-produced by SBS and will begin shooting next month, starring Isabelle Huppert in the lead; she will be joined by Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Virginie Efira and Charles Berling, among others.

The advance on receipts committee has also selected C'est l'amour [+see also:
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by veteran director Paul Vecchiali (produced by Shellac Sud and Dialektic), who returned to the limelight last summer in competition at Locarno with Nuits blanches sur la jetée [+see also:
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The CNC has also promised an advance to Tant que je respire, j'espère, the second feature by Magaly Richard-Serrano, following Dans les cordes [+see also:
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(2007). Blue Monday Productions is helming the project.

Also featuring on the list of selected projects is L'amour des hommes [+see also:
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by Mehdi Ben Attia. Staged by 4 à 4 Productions, the movie will be the third feature by the filmmaker, following Le fil [+see also:
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(2010) and I’m Not Dead [+see also:
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(Berlinale Forum 2013).

Another advance on receipts will go to Amoureux solitaires by Sylvie Verheyde (produced by Les Films du Veyrier), the fifth feature by the director, who presented Stella [+see also:
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at the Venice Days in 2008 and Confession of a Child of the Century [+see also:
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in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2012.

Lastly, the CNC will back the project La belle dormant by cult Spanish filmmaker Adolfo Arrieta, staged by Paraïso Production Diffusion.

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(Translated from French)

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