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PRODUCTION / FUNDING France / Belgium

Jeanne Herry shooting Garance

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- Adèle Exarchopoulos and Sara Giraudeau lead the cast of the French filmmaker’s new movie, produced by Chi-Fou-Mi and Trésor Films

Jeanne Herry shooting Garance
Actresses Adèle Exarchopoulos (© 2024 Fabrizio de Gennaro for Cineuropa - fadege.it, @fadege.it) and Sara Giraudeau (© 2024 Fabrizio de Gennaro for Cineuropa - fadege.it, @fadege.it)

Since Tuesday 2 September, Jeanne Herry has been shooting Garance, her 4th feature film after Elle l’adore [+see also:
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(nominated for the 2015 Best First Film César), In Safe Hands [+see also:
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(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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(earning 1.16 million admissions in France and nine César nominations in 2024, also including for Best Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay).

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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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interview: Abdellatif Kechiche
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, and the 2024 César for All Your Faces, nominated three additional times, recently highly acclaimed in The Piano Accident [+see also:
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interview: Quentin Dupieux
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and hitting cinemas on 15 October in Dog 51 [+see also:
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) and Sara Giraudeau (awarded the Best Supporting Role César in 2018 for Bloody Milk [+see also:
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interview: Hubert Charuel
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, known around the world for the series The Bureau [+see also:
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, and hitting cinemas in 2026 in L’Affaire Bojarski and Derrière les palmiers).

Penned by Jeanne Herry herself (who also co-wrote The Kingdom [+see also:
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), the story follows Garance, who’s a young actress but not a star. Brave, joyful and resilient, she manages things as best she can, finding fuel and unconditional comfort in alcohol. Garance subsequently changes her life and sets out on an eight-year journey of relocations, work, encounters, parties, anxieties, joyful moments and harsh blows… She embarks upon an intimate, friendship-focused and sexual revolution, but she continues to drink increasing amounts. Until death seems to loom...

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 [+see also:
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by Cédric Jimenez (which closed the Venice Film Festival), Out of Love [+see also:
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interview: Nathan Ambrosioni
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by Nathan Ambrosioni (who scooped Best Director in Karlovy Vary) and Bagarre by Julien Royal. Trésor Films, for their part, recently produced Pierre Schoeller’s Rembrandt [+see also:
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interview: Pierre Schoeller
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(Translated from French)

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