Two young actresses who are gaining increasing ground within European cinema are also playing the lead in L'Age d’or, a French-Italian co-production and first work by French director Bérenger Thouin, on which filming began on 10 March in Turin. Souheila Yacoub, the European Film Promotion’s Shooting Star of 2022, made her debut in Climax [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]. Italy’s Yile Vianello - awarded the Best Italian Newcomer David di Donatello Award in 2024 - made her debut in 2011 at just 12 years of age, in Corpo celeste [+lee también:
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L’Age d’or was written by Thouin himself, together with Mehdi Ben Attia (who directed The String [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]). Set in 1944, the movie uses original archive footage as a backdrop against which the flesh and blood actors play their parts. In France, Countess Jeanne de Barante (Yacoub) has fallen into the hands of a group of soldiers and is being led towards the place of her execution. Over the course of this journey towards death, Jeanne thinks back on her story and the capricious fate which drove her to this end. From her childhood spent in her parents’ butcher’s in the French provinces in the early 20th century to the years she lived in Paris, alone and in poverty; from her encounter with the intrepid, elusive and passionate Celeste (Vianello) to the spiralling vortex of the Great War; from her reunion with the young count, Guillaume de Barante, who was party to the mistake she made in her youth, to their business in Brazil when coffee became all the rage in the roaring Twenties… Right up until her return to France, when Jeanne finally fulfilled her dream of going home to the village of her birth in the shoes of a countess…

The production team’s communiqué further describes it as: “A fascinating romp with accents of a soap opera or picaresque novel which foregrounds the full visual power of the archive footage, which is used as an animated context in which the film’s flesh and blood actors evolve to tell the adventure-filled story of a female anti-hero called Jeanne and her good friend Celeste”.

With filming set to move to South-West France next week, courtesy of Martin Roux (Bitten [+lee también:
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