27/01/2021 - The duo play a couple who aren’t short on love but can no longer stand one another in Ilan Klipper’s new film, a Cinéfrance Studios production sold by Le Pacte, which is soon to wrap filming

Actress Camille Chamoux and actor Damien Bonnard

The final clapperboard is set to slam on 2 February for The Peace and Love Process [+see also:
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film profile] (Cannes’ 2017 ACID selection). To date, the filmmaker has mostly worked within the documentary field, offering up Flics (2006) and Commissariat (2009), which he co-directed with Virgil Vernier, Sainte-Anne (screened within Arte’s Grand Format programme and awarded a trophy at 2010’s Visions du Réel Festival) and Tightrope Walkers [+see also:
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Leading the cast of this new opus, which commenced filming on 14 December, are Camille Chamoux (Les gazelles [+see also:
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interview: Ladj Ly
film profile], for 2019’s Best Supporting Role César for The Trouble With You [+see also:
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interview: Pierre Salvadori
film profile] and for 2017’s Acting Revelation Lumières award for Staying Vertical [+see also:
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interview: Alain Guiraudie
film profile]; recently well-received in Only the Animals [+see also:
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interview: Dominik Moll
film profile], among other works, and touring cinemas this year in Les intranquilles). The duo are joined by Jeanne Balibar (2018’s César and Lumières Best Actress awards for Barbara [+see also:
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interview: Xavier Giannoli
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interview: Robert Guédiguian
film profile], and touring cinemas this year in Les Héroïques [+see also:
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interview: Maxime Roy
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Written by the very same Camille Chamoux and Ilan Keppler, the story looks at the case of a couple who are in love but can no longer stand each other. In an interview published in Les Fiches du Cinéma in June of last year, the director spoke of "a film in the spirit of Maris and Woody Allen’s women", explaining that "it’s the story of a couple who are trying to hang on. They really love one another but they make for quite an explosive couple, so they argue a lot, but they don’t want to separate. Because they think it’s better to try to come through it, to go beyond themselves and do what it takes to make it work, rather than just giving up."

The Peace and Love Process is produced by David Gauquié and Julien Deris on behalf of Cinéfrance Studios, and is co-produced by France 2 Cinéma. Pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, the film will be sold worldwide and distributed in France by Le Pacte.

For the record, Cinéfrance Studios recently produced Meander [+see also:
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interview: Mathieu Turi
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interview: Emmanuel Carrère
film profile] by Emmanuel Carrère and three comedies shot in the second half of 2020: Some Like It Rare [+see also:
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film profile] by Fabrice Eboué, Superwho? by Philippe Lacheau and Farewell Paris [+see also:
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(Translated from French)