Jérôme Bonnell is shooting Tout recommencera
- Swann Arlaud, Galatea Bellugi, Louise Chevillotte, Emmanuelle Devos and Aymeline Alix all star in this Diaphana Films production
Monday 3 June saw Jérôme Bonnell kick off filming on Tout recommencera, his 9th fiction feature film after Olga’s Chignon (in competition in Rotterdam 2003), Pale Eyes [+see also:
film review
interview: Jérôme Bonnell
interview: Nathalie Boutefeu
film profile] (screened in the Berlinale Forum in 2005 and awarded the Jean Vigo Prize), Just a Sigh [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (in competition in Tribeca 2013) and All About Them [+see also:
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film profile] (2015), to name just a few.
Eye-catching names in the cast include Swann Arlaud (awarded 2018’s Best Actor César for Bloody Milk [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Hubert Charuel
film profile] and this year’s Best Supporting Role trophy for Anatomy of a Fall [+see also:
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interview: Justine Triet
film profile], and starring in Sukkwan Island next year), Galatéa Bellugi (nominated for this year’s Best Supporting Role César thanks to Junkyard Dog [+see also:
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film profile], hitting cinemas in France on 12 June in Gloria! [+see also:
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interview: Margherita Vicario
film profile] and next year in L’engloutie), Louise Chevillotte (revealed in Lover for a Day [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] and seen in this year’s Auction), Emmanuelle Devos (awarded 2002’s Best Actress César, further nominated in 2005 and 2018, and recently well-received in A Silence [+see also:
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interview: Joachim Lafosse
film profile] and The Dreamer [+see also:
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interview: Anaïs Tellenne
film profile]) and Aymeline Alix (glimpsed in Full Time [+see also:
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interview: Eric Gravel
film profile]).
Written by the director and loosely based on Léonor de Recondo’s novel Amours, the story takes us back to 1908. Victoire and André are married but their love isn’t reciprocal and they’re struggling to have children. Feeling neglected, André takes advantage of their young domestic, Céleste. The maid is terrified and feels unable to reject him. His abusive behaviour continues until Céleste becomes pregnant and tries to conceal it…
Tout recommencera is produced by Michel Saint-Jean on behalf of Diaphana Films and notably enjoys support in the form of an advance on receipts from the CNC and backing from the Normandy region, which is where the 24-day film shoot is due to unfold until 4 July. The film’s release in French cinemas in entrusted to Diaphana Distribution.
(Translated from French)
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