Antonin Peretjatko is working on Old Fashioned
- The director, revealed with The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu, gathers a cast including Anaïs Demoustier, Philippe Katerine, Josiane Balasko, William Lebghil and Sergi Lopez
Shooting on Antonin Peretjatko’s Old Fashioned [+see also:
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The cast includes Anaïs Demoustier (currently in French cinemas Alice and the Mayor [+see also:
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interview: Robert Guédiguian
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interview: Stéphane Demoustier
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Q&A: François Ozon
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interview: Benoît Forgeard
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interview: Alice Rohrwacher
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interview: Neus Ballús
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Adapted by the director from Noëlle Renaude’s play Il faut un héritier (lit. We Need an Heir), the script centres on Paul Château Têtard who falls in love with Ava, a young woman working at a metro ticket counter. The wedding isn’t to the taste of the mother-in-law, nicknamed the Queen Mother, but she makes do because Paul, at 48 years old, does not have any children: an heir would be welcome. But the baby does not arrive and Ava and Queen Mother are at war. The latter is convinced that Ava is cheating on her son so she hires a detective to follow her. A baby is finally expected! But is Paul the father? The detective investigates…
Produced by Thomas et Mathieu Verhaeghe for Atelier de Production, Old Fashioned is a co-production with Orange Studio, was pre-bought by Canal+ and OCS, and is supported by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region where filming is taking place, with Simon Roca (faithful collaborator of the director, with a recent filmography that includes 9 Fingers [+see also:
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For the record, Atelier de Production is behind Quentin Dupieux’s Deerskin [+see also:
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interview: Nine Antico
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(Translated from French)
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