26/02/2024 - Camille Cottin, Romain Duris, Celeste Brunnquell, Denis Podalydès and Bruno Podalydès all star in this Trésor Films production sold by Playtime

Actor Romain Duris (© Marie Rouge/Unifrance) and actress Camille Cottin (© Agences Artistiques)

Shooting on Pierre Schoeller’s Rembrandt, which began filming on 22 January, is set to wrap on 13 March. This will be the director’s 4th feature film after Versailles [+see also:
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interview: Geraldine Michelot
interview: Pierre Schoeller
film profile] (screened in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section in 2008 and nominated for the Best First Film and Best Actor Césars in 2009), The Minister [+see also:
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interview: Pierre Schoeller
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interview: Pierre Schoeller
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The cast is led by Camille Cottin (awarded 2016’s Best New Hope César, currently touring French cinemas in The Empire [+see also:
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interview: Bruno Dumont
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interview: Thomas Cailley
film profile], and appearing soon in Une part manquante). They’re notably joined by Celeste Brunnquell (nominated for this year’s Acting Revelation César thanks to No Love Lost [+see also:
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interview: Erwan Le Duc
film profile] and previously in 2020 for The Dazzled [+see also:
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film profile], recently at her best in Spare Keys [+see also:
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film profile] as well as in the Venice-selected movie For Night Will Come [+see also:
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interview: Céline Rouzet
film profile], and hitting cinemas on 1 May in Une affaire de principe), Denis Podalydès (well-received in recent months for Making of [+see also:
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interview: Cédric Kahn
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film profile] and French Tech [+see also:
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film profile]).

Written by the director together with Anne-Louise Trividic (who was nominated for 2006’s Best Adapted Screenplay César), the story follows Claire and Yves who are trained physicists and who have always worked in the nuclear field. During a visit to the National Gallery, Claire is blown away by three Rembrandt paintings and her encounter with these three masterpieces changes her forever…

Rembrandt is produced by Alain Attal on behalf of Trésor Films, in co-production with France 3 Cinéma, Belgium’s Artémis Productions and Paris-based Zinc (who are also overseeing distribution in French cinemas). The movie has been pre-purchased by Canal+, France Télévisions and Netflix, and it also benefits from a CNC advance on receipts. The seven-week film shoot will unfold almost entirely in the Paris region (apart from a single day spent in England) with Nicolas Loir heading up cinematography. International sales are steered by Playtime.

For the record, Trésor Films are currently overseeing post-production on Beating Hearts [+see also:
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(Translated from French)