End of shoot for Comme t’y es belle!
Last day of shooting in Luxembourg for the European co-production Comme t'y es belle! by Lisa Azuelos, the first solo feature from the French filmmaker after Ainsi soient-elles which she directed in 1995 with Patrick Alessandrin. With ambitions to be a feminine version of La vérité si je mens, the film traces the misadventures of four friends connected through their Sepharic Jewish families. Amorous surprises, slimming regimes, children to be reared, family and religious festivities, and also a beauty salon going through a tax inspection and a clandestine immigrant nanny who has to be quickly housed until she can secure her papers… There are plenty of twists and turns in the daily life of these four women interpreted by Michèle Laroque, Valérie Benguigui, Aure Atika and Géraldine Nakache, from a screenplay written by the director (author of Cavalcade in 2005 and of 15 août in 2001), with Michaël Lellouche and Hervé Mimram.
Shot in seven weeks (two in France, five in Luxembourg) and with a budget of 6,2 million euros, Comme t'y es belle! is one of the first productions from Liaison cinématographique, a company created by Frenchman Christophe Rossignon (Nord-Ouest Production), Luxemburger Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film) and the Belgian Patrick Quinet (Artémis Productions). Handling international sales, the French company Wild Bunch also acted as producer. As for co-producers, the UK is represented by Future Film Limited, and Belgium by Entre Chien et Loup and RTBF (Belgium’s Radio Television Network for the French-speaking community), Samsa Films (Luxembourg) and TF1 Films Production (France). The film be released in France on the 23rd of March 2006, distributed by Pan Européenne Edition.
(Translated from French)
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