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Stéphane Batut shooting Vif-argent

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- The cast of the director’s debut feature-length fiction film, a Zadig Films production, includes Timothée Robard, Judith Chemla and Saadia Bentaïeb

Stéphane Batut shooting Vif-argent
Director Stéphane Batut

Today marks the end of the Parisian tranche of the shoot for Vif-argent [+see also:
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 by Stéphane Batut, which will shift to Benin for a final week of filming in December. For his debut feature-length fiction film, the director, who turned heads with the medium-length documentary Le Rappel des oiseaux (which took part in a number of festivals, including Cinéma du Réel and the Viennale in 2014) and who is also an experienced casting director, has assembled a cast including Timothée Robard (a non-professional actor), Judith Chemla (nominated for the César Award and the Lumières Award for Best Actress in 2017 for A Woman’s Life [+see also:
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, nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2013 for Camille Rewinds [+see also:
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, which earned her the Lumières Award for Best New Actress, also popular recently in C’est la vie! [+see also:
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 and This Summer Feeling [+see also:
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) and Saadia Bentaïeb (currently gracing screens in We Need Your Vote [+see also:
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 and making an appearance in Custody [+see also:
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).

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The story, written by Stéphane Batut, Christine Dory and Frédéric Videau (Coming Home [+see also:
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), revolves around 20-year-old Juste, who is telling a woman, supposedly his therapist, what has been going on in his life since their last appointment. He tells her that he goes off in search of people in the crowds, dead people who don’t know they’ve passed on – not yet, anyway. He collects their last memory before ushering them on to the next world for good. One day, a young woman, Agathe, recognises him. She belongs to his former life. She is alive, but he is a ghost. How will they be able to love one another and seize this second chance?

Produced by Paul Rosenberg and Mélanie Gérin for Zadig FilmsVif-argent is being supported by the CNC’s advance on receipts, the Ile-de-France region and the Cinémage Sofica. The French distribution and international sales are at a very advanced stage of negotiations.

As a reminder, Zadig Films has the recent titles No Man Is an Island [+see also:
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 by Dominique Marchais and Suite armoricaine [+see also:
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 by Pascale Breton (in competition at Locarno in 2015) under its belt.

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