01/03/2023 - The two actors have just finished filming Maxime Caperan’s first fiction feature film, produced by Les Films du Clan

Actors Félix Maritaud (© Matteo Rivoire-Guimet) and Kacey Mottet-Klein (© Georges Biard)

Friday saw the final clapperboard slam on Un monde violent, the debut fiction feature film by Maxime Caperan (who turned heads with his short film Les guerriers and his documentary Les enfants de la patrie). The filmmaker has assembled a cast spearheaded by Félix Maritaud (awarded the Acting Revelation Prize in Cannes’ Critics’ Week 2018, as well as the Lumière Acting Revelation Prize in 2019 for Sauvage [+see also:
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Written by the director, in league with Thomas Finkielkraut (whom he met while studying in La Fémis’ Series department), the screenplay (a finalist for the 2019 Junior Screenplay Award) revolves around two brothers, Sam and Paul, who work in a warehouse in central France and who organise for the heist of a truck packed full of smartphones. But the truck driver fights back and subsequently dies. The two brothers find themselves sucked into a spiral of violence…

Produced by Charles Philippe on behalf of Les Films du Clan, Un monde violent was mainly shot in the French region of Creuse, as well as in Limoges, between 16 January and 24 February, with Éva Sehet heading up photography.

For the record, Les Films du Clan are currently overseeing post-production on Ronan Tronchot’s Paternel (read our article - starring Grégory Gadebois, Géraldine Nakache and Lyes Salem).

(Translated from French)