Sunday 21 June will see the first clapperboard slam on Une heure et demie en été, Marion Desseigne-Ravel’s second feature film after Besties (2022). Leading the cast of this movie – which will consist of one long sequence shot - are Manon Clavel (nominated for the Best Newcomer César and Lumière trophies this year via Kika, and recently seen in Cannes in The Blow), Camille Rutherford (nominated for the Best Newcomer César via Felicità and Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, and also acclaimed in Anatomy of a Fall and Nino) and Salif Cissé (especially impressive in All Hands on Deck, Guess Who Is Calling? and Meteors).

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Written by the director herself, the story follows in the footsteps of 35-year-old actress Mathilde. Far from glitzy and glamourous, her career both thrills and exhausts her. She knocks back pills, struggles to make ends meet and is constantly running from one room to another. It’s the month of July in Avignon and people are winding down. It’s too hot, there are too many shows and too many people. Mathilde feels like she’s drowning. But now’s not the time to fall apart: she only has an hour and a half to get from one theatre to another and follow through on her different commitments, a mission that’s usually manageable…

Une heure et demie en été was produced by Bertrand Faivre on behalf of Le Bureau Films. The feature film has been pre-purchased by Ciné+ OCS and enjoys support from the SOFICA companies Cofimage and Palatine Étoile. Shooting will unfold between 21 June and 13 July with Lucie Baudinaud (Nino, Dua, Olga) heading up photography. Distribution in French cinemas will fall to Le Pacte and world sales to The Bureau Sales.

For the record, recent works on Le Bureau Films’ books include The Money Maker by Jean-Paul Salomé (1.16 million admissions in France this year), Guess Who’s Calling! by Fabienne Godet (whose remake rights have been sold in Italy, Spain, Germany and Turkey), and Vincent Munier’s co-production Whisper in the Woods (1.32 million admissions in France last year and the winner of the 2026 César for Best Documentary), without forgetting Salomé Stévenin’s documentary Nos âmes libres, which will be released in French cinemas on 4 November by JHR Films.