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Nicloux completes police trilogy with La clef

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The sixth feature by Guillaume Nicloux, La clef (lit. “The Key”), kicked off shooting in Paris today, while the director’s most recent film, The Stone Council [+see also:
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– screened at the recent RomeFilmFest (see October 17 article) – opens on Wednesday.

After 2002’s A Private Affair (starring Thierry Lhermitte) and 2003’s That Woman (starring Josiane Balasko), La clef will feature rising star Guillaume Canet, Jean Rochefort, Marie Gillain, Vanessa Paradis, Josiane Balasko and Lhermitte for the final part of a police trilogy about disappearance. The director returns to his favourite film noir genre, one he likes so much that he even writes thrillers.

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Nicloux’s film will recount the nightmarish search of a police officer (Canet) for his father, who along the way meets several characters, including the detective from A Private Affair and the woman from the second film in his trilogy.

The film was written by Nicloux and Pierre Trividic, who was nominated for a Cesar for Best Screenplay for Patrice Chéreau’s Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train and who also wrote on Pascal Ferrand’s Lady Chatterley [+see also:
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, currently in cinemas.

Produced by Philippe Rousselet for Les Films de la Suane and by Frédéric Bourboulon, La clef will have a ten-week shoot in and around Paris and is slated for release through Warner Bros in the second half of 2007.

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(Translated from French)

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