UGC boards Anger’s Le tueur
Principal photography begins in Paris on Monday on Cédric Anger’s debut feature, a thriller entitled Le tueur (lit. “The Killer”, formerly Le soldat). The film will be co-produced by SBS Films, part of UGC, who will handle the film’s French release and international sales.
A journalist at the Cahiers du Cinéma from 1993 to 2001, Anger has brought together a cast featuring Grégoire Colin (Claire Denis’ favourite actor and in Micha Wald’s upcoming Voleurs de chevaux [+see also:
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Anger – who started out in cinema as a scriptwriter on Xavier Beauvois’ To Matthieu and Werner Schroeter’s Two – also co-scripted the Petit lieutenant [+see also:
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Le tueur follows hired killer Kopas (Colin) who arrives in Paris on a mission: to kill Léo (Melki), father of an eight year-old girl. By chance, the assassin meets his wife (Laurent).
Co-produced by Thomas Klotz for Sunrise Films and Saïd Ben Saïd for SBS (André Téchiné’s The Witnesses [+see also:
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The film will shoot for six weeks and cinematography will be by DoP Caroline Champetier (Benoît Jacquot’s The Untouchable [+see also:
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Le tueur is slated for a December release.
(Translated from French)
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