11/07/2024 - The filmmaker is re-forming her on-screen duo with Philippe Katerine to make the Voyages en Italie sequel, produced by Tourne Films and Atelier de Production

Actress-director Sophie Letourneur (© Vera de Kok) and actor Philippe Katerine (© CsdemFrance)

After the Sicily-based vacation characterising the jocular movie Voyages en Italie [+see also:
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This will be the director’s 6th feature film after Chicks – Life at the Ranch [+see also:
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Written by Sophie Letourneur, the story of her latest opus plunges to Sardinia during the summer holidays for a family (road) trip. Claudine, soon to be 11, recounts their adventures as they go along. When Raoul, her 3-year-old brother, doesn't stop her....

L’Aventura is produced by Tourne Films (the filmmaker’s own firm) and by Thomas and Mathieu Verhaeghe on behalf of Atelier de Production. Shooting will start this summer in Sardinia before continuing in France, with Jonathan Ricquebourg heading up photography (awarded the 2017 and 2024 Lumière trophies in his speciality for Last Days of Louis XIV [+see also:
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film profile] and The Taste of Things [+see also:
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film profile], with the latter also earning him a nomination for this year’s César). The film’s release in French cinemas will fall to Arizona Distribution.

For the record, in this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Atelier de Production unveiled Eat the Night [+see also:
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interview: Laetitia Dosch
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(Translated from French)