Graham Guit is soon to wrap filming in Belgium on his fifth feature film, titled Plus fort que le diable. The French filmmaker made his mark in 1997 with his debut feature, Le Ciel est à nous, a high-octane crime film which announced the filmmaker’s fondness for genre cinema and already starred Melvil Poupaud. It was followed by Les Kidnappeurs (1998) and two other feature films,  Le Pacte du Silence in 2003, and Hello Goodbye [+lee también:
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He returns with Plus forts que le diable, a project which the director describes as “visceral, infused with humour and extreme.” The film follows Valentin, a man with a troubled past who is looking to start a new life. To do so, he begins by reconnecting with his son, 27-year-old Joseph, whom he hasn’t seen in years, and his girlfriend, Alice. But what initially looks like a warm family reunion quickly takes a turn when Mila and JP,  “work” colleagues who could also be described as “bad company”, show up. The gates of hell may well be opening under their feet… 

In the role of Valentin we find Melvil Poupaud (recently seen in Coup de chance [+lee también:
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Plus forts que le diable is produced by Amos Rozenberg and Manuel Molina for Belgian-French company Rockstone Films, which recently produced Music Hole [+lee también:
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