PRODUCTION / FUNDING France / Belgium
The shoot for Cédric Klapisch’s La venue de l’avenir enters the home stretch
- Suzanne Lindon, Abraham Wapler, Julia Piaton, Vincent Macaigne and Zinedine Soualem topline this Ce Qui Me Meut production, sold by StudioCanal
After having kicked off on 15 April, the shoot for La venue de l’avenir (lit. “The Arrival of the Future”) by Cédric Klapisch is slated to wrap on 24 June. This is the 15th fiction feature film by the director, who rose to fame with Little Nothings (nominated for the César Award for Best First Feature Film in 1993), was popular with titles such as Le péril jeune, When the Cat’s Away, Family Resemblance, Pot Luck and Rise [+see also:
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interview: Cédric Klapisch
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Toplining his new opus are Suzanne Lindon (Spring Blossom [+see also:
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interview: Suzanne Lindon
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interview: Emmanuel Mouret
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Also among the cast are Paul Kircher (nominated for the César Award for Best New Actor in 2023 and 2024 for Winter Boy [+see also:
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interview: Christophe Honoré
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interview: Thomas Cailley
film profile], landing in theatres on 4 December in Leurs enfants après eux), Vassili Schneider (giving a great performance in Forever Young [+see also:
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interview: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
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interview: Adrien Beau
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film profile]), Sara Giraudeau (César Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2018 for Bloody Milk [+see also:
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interview: Hubert Charuel
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interview: Frédéric Lavigne
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interview: Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu
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interview: Martin Provost
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The story, written by Cédric Klapisch and Santiago Amigorena (both nominated for the 2023 César Award for Best Original Screenplay for Rise), is set in Baron Haussmann’s Paris at the end of the 19th century and the present day. Today, in 2024, 30 or so people from a single family find out that they are about to inherit a house that has been abandoned for several years. Four of them, Seb, Abdel, Céline and Guy, are in charge of doing the inventory of the place. These distant “cousins” will then discover hidden treasures in this old house. They will find themselves following the tracks of a mysterious woman called Adèle, who left her native Normandy at the age of 20. Adèle ends up in Paris in 1895, just as the city is in the middle of an industrial and cultural revolution. For the four cousins, this introspective journey looking into their family tree will enable them to discover this unusual moment at the end of the 19th century, a time that saw both the invention of photography and the birth of Impressionism. This clash between the two eras, 2024 and 1895, will put a question mark over their present and their ideals, and will shed light on what the “arrival of the future” actually means.
La venue de l’avenir is being produced by Bruno Lévy and Cédric Klapisch for Ce Qui Me Meut Motion Pictures, and co-produced by France 2 Cinéma, StudioCanal and Belgian outfits La Compagnie Cinématographique and Panache Productions. Having been pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature has also secured support from the Normandy and Ile-de-France regions, where the shoot is taking place, with Alexis Kavyrchine (winner of a César Award in his category in 2021 for Bye Bye Morons [+see also:
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interview: Emmanuel Finkiel
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(Translated from French)
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