PRODUCTION / FUNDING France / Belgium
Jeanne Herry shooting Garance
- Adèle Exarchopoulos and Sara Giraudeau lead the cast of the French filmmaker’s new movie, produced by Chi-Fou-Mi and Trésor Films
Since Tuesday 2 September, Jeanne Herry has been shooting Garance, her 4th feature film after Elle l’adore [+see also:
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film profile] (boasting 840,000 admissions in France and seven César nominations in 2019, notably for Best Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay) and All Your Faces [+see also:
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The cast is led by Adèle Exarchopoulos (awarded Cannes’ Palme d’Or in 2013, the Best Newcomer César for Blue Is the Warmest Colour [+see also:
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film profile] and hitting cinemas on 15 October in Dog 51 [+see also:
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Penned by Jeanne Herry herself (who also co-wrote The Kingdom [+see also:
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Garance is being produced by Hugo Sélignac and Nicolas Dumont on behalf of Chi-Fou-Mi Productions and by Alain Attal for Trésor Films, in co-production with Belgian firm Artémis Productions. The film’s array of partners will be revealed at a later date. Shooting will unfold in Paris, the surrounding region and in Soulac-sur-Mer until 3 December, with Antoine Cormier (The Kingdom) heading up photography.
For the record, Chi-Fou-Mi Productions are currently overseeing post-production on Alexandre Smia’s Jupiter (read our article) and Quentin Dupieux’s mysterious movie Signaux, having recently produced Dog 51 by Cédric Jimenez (which closed the Venice Film Festival), Out of Love [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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