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Catherine Corsini now filming The Divide

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- Dazzling in the cast of this Chaz Productions film sold by Kinology are Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Marina Foïs and Pio Marmaï

Catherine Corsini now filming The Divide
Actresses Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Marina Foïs and actor Pio Marmaï

Since 23 September, Catherine Corsini has been shooting her 11th fiction feature film The Divide [+see also:
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, starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (recently gracing the poster of Summer of 85 [+see also:
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and whom we’ll be seeing in 2021 in Les années 10, Gli indifferenti and Les amours d’Anaïs), Marina Foïs (nominated for the Best Actress César several times, most recently for The Workshop [+see also:
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, currently touring cinemas via Enormous [+see also:
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and next year gracing film posters for Ils sont vivants and La Salamandre) and Pio Marmaï (nominated for the 2019 Best Actor César for his role in The Trouble With You [+see also:
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; in cinemas from 9 December in A Night Doctor [+see also:
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, from 16 December in How I Became A Super Hero [+see also:
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and next year in Compagnons). The three are further joined by Jean-Louis Coulloc’h (Lady Chatterley [+see also:
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) and Aïssatou Diallo Sagna.

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Selected four times to take part in Cannes (Replay, in competition in 2001, Three Worlds [+see also:
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]
in the 2012 Un Certain Regard line-up, Les Amoureux and Jeunesse sans Dieu in the Directors’ Fortnight in 1994 and 1996) and once in the Berlinale (La Nouvelle Eve in the 1999 Panorama section), Catherine Corsini has also won acclaim in Locarno (scooping the Piazza Grande Award in 2015 for Summertime [+see also:
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), in Toronto (thanks to Leaving [+see also:
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in 2009, among other works) and more recently in Rotterdam (An Impossible Love [+see also:
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in 2019).

Written by the director herself, alongside Laurette Polmanss (this being her 3rd film penned with Catherine Corsini) and Agnès Feuvre (Dark Inclusion [+see also:
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), The Divide’s script revolves around Raf and Julie. Together, they form a couple of the verge of a break-up who find themselves in A&E having almost suffocated on the evening of a large Parisian demonstration. Overwhelmed staff and injured, angry protesters will serve to shatter the certainties and prejudices of these two women, as will their encounter with wounded demonstrator Yann. Outside, the tension mounts and the hospital finds itself besieged… It’s going to be a long night.

Produced by Élisabeth Perez for Chaz Productions, The Divide is co-produced by France 3 Cinéma, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma and Le Pacte (who are also overseeing the film’s cinema release in France). Also pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature film further enjoys the support of the SOFICA companies Sofitvcine, Cinémage and Cinéaxe. Filming will unfold over seven weeks in the Paris region and in Lyon, with Jeanne Lapoirie helming cinematography (nominated in her category at the 2003, 2014 and 2018 Césars). International sales are entrusted to Kinology.

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(Translated from French)

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