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Stéphane Demoustier preparing The Girl with a Bracelet

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- The first clapperboard will slam in January for this film toplined by Roschdy Zem and Chiara Mastroianni, produced by Petit Film and set to be sold by Charades

Stéphane Demoustier preparing The Girl with a Bracelet
Director Stéphane Demoustier

After turning heads in the International Critics’ Week at Venice in 2014 with 40-Love [+see also:
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, Stéphane Demoustier will kick off the shoot for his second feature, The Girl With the Bracelet [+see also:
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, in January. This family and crime drama boasts a cast including Roschdy Zem (Best Actor Award at Cannes in 2006 for Days of Glory [+see also:
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, nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2000 for My Little Business, in 2006 for The Young Lieutenant [+see also:
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and in 2009 for La fille de Monaco [+see also:
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, also popular in such titles as Happy Few [+see also:
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and The Price of Success [+see also:
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interview: Teddy Lussi-Modeste
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), Chiara Mastroianni (nominated for the Lumières Award for Best Actress in 2012 for Beloved [+see also:
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interview: Christophe Honoré
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, also giving a fine performance in 3 Hearts [+see also:
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interview: Benoît Jacquot
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, and set to grace screens next year in Claire Darling), Mélissa Guers (for whom this will be the first film role), Annie Mercier (On a failli être amies [+see also:
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), Switzerland’s Carlo Brandt (Endangered Species [+see also:
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, Much Loved [+see also:
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) and Anaïs Demoustier (a European Film Promotion Shooting Star in 2010; nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2009 and 2011; popular in such movies as The New Girlfriend [+see also:
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interview: François Ozon
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, All About Them [+see also:
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and Bird People [+see also:
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).

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Bruno (Roschdy Zem) and Céline’s (Chiara Mastroianni) family life is turned upside down when their 17-year-old daughter, Lise (Mélissa Guers), is accused of murdering her friend Flora. Two years after the crime, Lise lives with her parents and her little brother, Jules, and must wear an electronic bracelet. As the trial looms, Bruno’s life revolves entirely around these few days, during which he knows that his daughter’s fate will be decided in the middle of a crown court... Annie Mercier will play Lise’s lawyer and Carlo Brandt the presiding judge, while Anaïs Demoustier will step into the shoes of the assistant public prosecutor.

Produced by Jean des Forêts for Petit Film, The Girl With the Bracelet will be co-produced by France 3 Cinéma and Belgian outfit Frakas Productions (Jean-Yves Roubin and Cassandre Warnauts). Having been pre-purchased by Canal+, Ciné+, RTBF and Belgacom, the feature will also benefit from the support of the CNC’s advance on receipts, Casa Kafka, Cofinova, the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, the Procirep-Angoa and the Pays de la Loire region, where the seven-week shoot will take place (with Sylvain Verdet in charge of the cinematography). The French distribution will be handled by Le Pacte and the international sales will be overseen by Charades.

As a reminder, Petit Films has the 2016 Cannes sensation Raw [+see also:
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by Julia Ducournau, Diane Has the Right Shape [+see also:
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by Fabien Gorgeart (on the cinema listings in France since 15 November) and Kairos by Nicolas Buenaventura (selected for Films in Progress at San Sebastián last September) to its credit.

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(Translated from French)

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