10/10/2024 - Laure Calamy, Vincent Macaigne, Lyes Salem, Mélanie Thierry and Céleste Brunnquell star in this production by Deuxième Ligne Films and Petit Film which will be sold by Ginger & Fed

Actress Laure Calamy (© Georges Biard) and actor Vincent Macaigne (© Fabrizio de Gennaro/Cineuropa)

Since 16 September, Fabien Gorgeart has been shooting C’est quoi l’amour?, his 3rd feature after the well received Diane Has the Right Shape [+see also:
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The film stars, amongst others, Laure Calamy (Best Actress César and Lumière awards in 2021 for My Donkey, My Lover & I [+see also:
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interview: Eric Gravel
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interview: Anne-Sophie Bailly
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interview: Elie Wajeman
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interview: Emmanuel Mouret
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interview: Emmanuel Finkiel
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Also in the cast are Céleste Brunnquell (nominated for the 2024 Best Newcomer César award for No Love Lost [+see also:
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interview: Jessica Palud
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interview: Martin Provost
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Written by the director, the script centres on Marguerite, who has no reason to refuse Fred, her ex-husband, the request for annulment of their catholic marriage. She is even happy to learn that Fred plans to get married with Chloé, his new partner. In order to prove to the ecclesiastical authorities that their union should never have existed, the former spouses embark on an investigation of their own past... which inevitably brings back feelings they thought had long been extinguished.

C’est quoi l’amour? is produced by Marie Dubas for Deuxième Ligne Films and by Jean des Forêts and Amélie Jacquis for Petit Film (two companies already behind A Family for 1640 Days), and co-produced by France 3 Cinéma. Also pre-bought by Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature benefits as well from support from the Normandy region (which will welcome most of the shoot, notably in Rouen, while the rest is planned to take place in Ile-de-France). The seven weeks of shooting will end on 1 November. The cinematography is handled by Jeanne Lapoirie (nominated for the César award in her craft in 2003, 2014 and more recently in 2018 for BPM (Beats Per Minute) [+see also:
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interview: Arnaud Valois
interview: Robin Campillo
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interview: Alain Guiraudie
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As a reminder, Deuxième Ligne Films and Petit Film also collaborated recently on 100,000,000,000,000 [+see also:
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(Translated from French)