06/12/2023 - Camille Rutherford, Pablo Pauly, Charlie Anson and Annabelle Lengronne all star in Laura Piani’s first feature film, produced by Les Films du Veyrier and Sciapode, and sold by The Bureau Sales

Actress Camille Rutherford

After a film-shoot unfolding between 17 October and 30 November both in France and in England, Jane Austen a gâché ma vie, the debut feature film by Laura Piani, is now in post-production. The neo-filmmaker hailing from the Conservatoire Européen d’Ecriture Audiovisuelle, who graduated from La Femis’ first showrunners course in 2018, has assembled a cast composed of Camille Rutherford (nominated for 2021’s Best New Hope César thanks to Felicità [+see also:
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Penned by the director, the story for this romantic comedy revolves around Agathe who realises that her life doesn’t live up to the promises of literature. This desperately single bookseller, lost in a fantasy world, finds herself forced to fulfil her dreams of becoming a writer in order to stop messing up her love life.

Jane Austen a gâché ma vie is produced by Gabrielle Dumon on behalf of Les Films du Veyrier and Sciapode, in co-production with Pictanovo (Hauts-de-France region). The movie is pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+ and enjoys further support from the SOFICA company Indéfilms. The film-shoot unfolded over the course of 28 days, with Pierre Mazoyer (The Dreamer [+see also:
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(Translated from French)