A Good Little Soldier by Stéphane Brizé now in post-production
- Alba Rohrwacher and Vincent Lindon lead the cast of the director’s new movie, produced and sold worldwide by Gaumont
Last week saw Stéphane Brizé wrap filming on his 11th feature, A Good Little Soldier. For the record, the filmmaker has been selected twice in competition at Cannes (The Measure of a Man [+see also:
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interview: Stéphane Brizé
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interview: Stéphane Brizé
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interview: Stéphane Brizé
film profile] in 2023) and once at San Sebastián (Not Here To Be Loved [+see also:
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The cast of his new opus is led by Alba Rohrwacher (crowned Best Actress in Venice 2014 via Hungry Hearts [+see also:
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film profile], which also won him the 2016 César and Lumière awards for Best Actor, and nominated another five times for the César in this category). Two of the lead actors are familiar faces in the filmmaker’s universe, since the Italian actress also toplined Out of Season, while her French peer is continuing a long-standing relationship with the director, with whom he’s reuniting for the 6th time since 2009.
The cast also stars Sharif Andoura (acclaimed for The Girl in the Snow [+see also:
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Written by Stéphane Brizé, Coralie Amédéo and Olivier Gorce (nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay César in 2012 via Omar Killed Me [+see also:
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Production is entrusted to Gaumont (which will also be steering distribution in France and managing world sales), with filming having unfolded in Paris and the Île-de-France region, headed up by director of photography Antoine Héberlé (nominated for the 2017 Cinematography Lumière via Une vie and Cannes’ 2013 Vulcain Prize thanks to Grigris [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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