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Filming ends for Montparnasse Bienvenüe

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- Top billing for Laetitia Dosch in Léonor Serraille’s feature debut, produced by Blue Monday and being sold by Be for Films

Filming ends for Montparnasse Bienvenüe
Actress Laetitia Dosch

Six weeks of shooting for Léonor Serraille’s first feature film, Montparnasse Bienvenüe [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Léonor Serraille
film profile
]
, wrapped in the Paris region on Thursday 17 March. The cast features names such as Laetitia Dosch (at the top of her game in La bataille de Solférino [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
and Keeper [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: Guillaume Senez ­
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
film profile
]
, also appearing in Mon roi [+see also:
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trailer
film profile
]
and Summertime [+see also:
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trailer
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]
), Souleymane Seye Ndiaye (The Pirogue [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
, Under the Starry Sky [+see also:
trailer
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]
), Grégoire Monsaingeon (You’ll Be a Man), Léonie Simaga (from the TV series Trepalium) and Belgian actress Erika Sainte (winner of the 2012 Magritte Award for Best Female Newcomer for She’s Not Crying, She’s Singing [+see also:
trailer
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]
).

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Originally written by the director in 2013 as her final project for her studies at La Fémis film school, the script focuses on the character of Paula. Joachim, an artist with whom she has shared the last ten years of her life, has just left her, and she finds herself on the streets of this new part of Paris she had followed him to. But Paula is not a melancholic woman, and so she chooses to stay, to be swallowed up by this unknown city, which is so attractive and so abusive at the same time. She is so close to her obsession, her goal, Joachim, but is invisible to him. But her solitude, odd jobs, fleeting encounters and her own bedroom flip everything she knows for certain on its head.

Produced by Sandra da Fonseca (taking on her second feature film following her work on As I Open My Eyes [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Leyla Bouzid
film profile
]
– winner of the Europa Cinemas Label at Venice Days in 2015) for Blue Monday Productions, Montparnasse Bienvenüe has received advance support against receipts from the CNC and backing from the Cofinova and Cinémage Soficas. The film will be distributed in French cinemas by Shellac, and Be for Films will be responsible for its international sales.

Blue Monday Productions is also currently working on filming for Nadir Moknèche’s Lola Pater [+see also:
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trailer
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]
(starring Fanny Ardant and Tewfik Jallab - read the article) and post-production for Magaly Richard-Serrano’s Stan [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
(read the article), and will shortly be releasing Vanja d’Alcantra’s Kokoro [+see also:
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trailer
film profile
]
in cinemas on 30 March (read the article).

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(Translated from French)

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