09/10/2018 - Arthur Dupont and Alice Bélaïdi play the lead roles in the director’s 17th feature, which is being produced by 2.4.7. Films and will be sold overseas by Be For Films

Actor Arthur Dupont and actress Alice Bélaïdi

The shoot for Victor et Célia [+see also:
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film profile] (presented in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2005) and, more recently, The Brigade [+see also:
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film profile], giving impressive performances in Mobile Home [+see also:
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film profile] and season two of Le Bureau des Légendes [+see also:
interview: Frédéric Lavigne
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interview: Robert Guédiguian
interview: Robert Guédiguian
film profile] and Army of Crime [+see also:
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The story, written by Pierre Jolivet with contributions from Éric Combernous and Marie-Carole Ifi, revolves around Victor and Ben, two thirty-somethings who plan on opening their own hairdressing salon. But their dream soon comes to a sudden end. Determined to pursue his quest for freedom and independence, Victor manages to convince Célia, whom he met when they were still at hairdressing college, to team up with him on the venture. While juggling their respective jobs, all the paperwork, the regulations, the debts, family… and past romantic infatuations that start to resurface, the two young partners must join forces to overcome all the obstacles and attempt to see their project of a lifetime through to the end…

Produced by Xavier Rigault and Marc-Antoine Robert (a European Film Promotion Producer on the Move in 2008) for 2.4.7. Films, Victor et Célia has secured a co-production by Apollo Films (which will take care of the French distribution), pre-purchases by Canal+ and Ciné+, plus support from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region (where the six-week shoot took place), as well as from the La Banque Postale Image and Palatine Étoile Soficas. The feature will be sold internationally by Be For Films. 

As a reminder, 2.4.7. Films, which started out in the world of production with Persepolis [+see also:
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film profile] by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud (Jury Prize at Cannes in 2007), has Delicacy [+see also:
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(Translated from French)