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PRODUCTION / FUNDING France

Judith Davis shoots L’Asile

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- The French director heads the cast of her new film, produced by Agat Films and Apsara Films and sold by Totem Films

Judith Davis shoots L’Asile
Actress and director Judith Davis

Filming began on 25 may in Brittany on L’Asile, the second feature film from Judith Davis after Whatever Happened to My Revolution [+see also:
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(nominated for the 2019 Louis Delluc prize for Best Feature Debut). As in that first feature, the director will play the main role, alongside Claire Dumas (seen in Into the World [+see also:
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, The Little Gang [+see also:
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and the series Toutouyoutou, among other projects), Maxence Tual (appreciated recently in Everybody Loves Jeanne [+see also:
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and Diary of a Fleeting Affair [+see also:
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), Simon Bakhouche (An Impossible Love [+see also:
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), Nadir Legrand and Mélanie Bestel who all starred in Whatever Happened to My Revolution.

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Written by the director together with Maya Haffar, the script centres on Jeanne, author and activist, as she leaves the stress of her urban life for a few days to visit her good friend Elisa, who has gone to live in the country. Although their opposite life choices put their complicity at risk, both find refuge in the same place: a local association, a place of welcome and care out of the ordinary. But it is coveted by Amaury, a businessman consumed by his desire for social success, who hopes to turn it into a luxury hotel...

Produced by Patrick Sobelman for Agat Films and Marine Arrighi for Apsara Films (a pair already behind the director’s debut feature), L’Asile is co-produced by Micro Climat Studios. Pre-bought by Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature film also benefits from the support of the CNC’s advance on receipts, the Brittany region, and the Cinécap and Cinémage Soficas. Filming will last seven weeks and take place almost entirely in Brittany with Tom Harari (nominated for the 2022 César and Lumière awards in his category for Onoda - 10 000 Nights in the Jungle [+see also:
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) as director of photography. The French cinema release will be handled by UFO Distribution, and international sales by Totem Films.

For the record, Agat Films has just presented in Cannes Classics the documentary Godard by Godard by Florence Platarets, and is currently producing the animated film La plus précieuse des marchandises by Michel Hazanavicius, while in post-production are Et la fête continue by Robert Guédiguian, 5 hectares [+see also:
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by Émilie Deleuze, Moi vivant, vous ne serez jamais morts by Baptiste Debraux (article) and En fanfare by Emmanuel Courcol (article).

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(Translated from French)

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