08/10/2020 - Together with Céline Sciamma and Léa Mysius, the French filmmaker has adapted three stories by the US graphic novel author Adrian Tomine in this Page 114 production set to be sold by Playtime

Director Jacques Audiard (© La Biennale di Venezia - foto ASAC)

After a short detour into the world of series - namely the last two episodes of The Bureau, Season 5 - Jacques Audiard is now making a return to film, currently shooting in Paris on the set of his 9^th feature film: Paris, 13th District [+see also:
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interview: Céline Sciamma
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interview: Zoé Wittock
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Adapted by the director himself, with the help of Céline Sciamma (winner of the Best Screenplay award in Cannes 2019 for Portrait of a Lady on Fire and the 2017 Best Adaptation César for My Life as a Courgette [+see also:
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interview: Claude Barras
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Awarded the 1995 Best First Film César for See How They Fall, Jacques Audiard has competed four times in the Cannes Film Festival: in 1996 with Un héros très discret (Best Screenplay), in 2009 with A Prophet [+see also:
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film profile] (Grand Prize of the Jury; likewise nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar), in 2012 with Rust and Bone [+see also:
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interview: Jacques Audiard
film profile] and in 2015 with Dheepan [+see also:
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Q&A: Jacques Audiard
film profile], a work which bagged itself the Palme d’Or. His back-catalogue also includes Read My Lips [+see also:
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film profile] (nine César nominations in 2002 and three trophies), The Beat That My Heart Skipped [+see also:
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film profile] (in competition in Berlin in 2005 and the winner of eight César awards in 2006, including the Best Film and Best Director accolades) and the English-language film The Sisters Brothers [+see also:
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interview: Jacques Audiard
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Produced by Valérie Schermann and Jacques Audiard on behalf of Page 114, Paris, 13th District is co-produced by France 2 Cinéma. Pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature film also enjoys the support of the SOFICA company Cofinova. Cinematography is in the hands of Paul Guilhaume (Ava [+see also:
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(Translated from French)