Victoria Musiedlak prepares to shoot L’incident
- Tahar Rahim, Alba Rohrwacher, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Catherine Mouchet and Micha Lescot are among the cast of an Agat Films production handled internationally by Be For Films
After making a splash on the Piazza Grande at Locarno in 2023 with First Case [+see also:
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Toplining the cast are Tahar Rahim (winner of the 2010 César Award for Best Actor for A Prophet [+see also:
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film profile] as well as being a 2025 nominee, a Golden Globe nominee in 2021 for The Mauritanian [+see also:
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film profile], and set to hit cinemas next October in Les Misérables), Italy's Alba Rohrwacher (Best Actress at Venice in 2014 for Hungry Hearts [+see also:
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interview: Carine Tardieu
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The screenplay, written by the director, centres on Harry and Apollonia, a close-knit couple who are parents to two little girls, and who return to France after 15 years abroad. While staying with Harry’s parents on holiday, Apollonia confides in her husband about an inappropriate gesture from her father-in-law. Was it a tasteless joke or the sign of a deeper deviance? Like a spreading poison, questions arise about Michel’s behaviour, rippling through the couple and dividing them, until everything is laid to waste…
L’incident is being produced by Sarah Egry for Agat Films and is co-produced by Camille Deleau for Ligne 2; it has been pre-bought by Canal+ and Ciné+ OCS. Also backed by the Île-de-France, Nouvelle Aquitaine and Sud regions, as well as by the Entourage, Cinécap, Indéfilms, Cinéaxe, La Banque Postale Image, Impact and Imagellium Soficas, the feature will boast an eight-week shoot running until early May (in Île-de-France, then Nouvelle Aquitaine, and finally a few days in Norway) with Amine Berrada (Banel & Adama [+see also:
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For the record, Agat Films & Ex Nihilo also has Pipaluk, The Girl Who Raced the Wind by Thierry Machado in production (see the news), and Une femme aujourd’hui by Robert Guédiguian (see the news), Du fioul dans les artères by Pierre Le Gall (see the news), Greenland by Emmanuel Courcol (see the news) and the documentary Je m’appelle Sophie Calle et je suis encore vivante by Sébastien Lifshitz in post-production.
(Translated from French)
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