Since mid-May, and shrouded in the utmost secrecy, Delphine and Muriel Coulin have been shooting The Quiet Son [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Delphine e Muriel Coulin
scheda film], their third feature, following 17 Girls [+leggi anche:
trailer
scheda film] (unveiled in the 2011 Critics’ Week and nominated for the César Award for Best First Film in 2012) and The Stopover [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Delphine e Muriel Coulin
scheda film] (Best Screenplay Award in Un Certain Regard in 2016). Standing out among the cast are Vincent Lindon (Best Actor Award at Cannes in 2015 for The Measure of a Man [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Stéphane Brizé
scheda film], a performance that also earned him the César and the Lumière Awards for Best Actor in 2016; nominated five further times for the César in this category; popular recently in Titane [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Julia Ducournau, Vincent L…
scheda film], Both Sides of the Blade [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
scheda film] and Another World [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Stéphane Brizé
scheda film]; set to be glimpsed soon in Un enfant pas comme les autres) and Benjamin Voisin (Lumière Award for Most Promising Actor in 2021 for Summer of 85 [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
scheda film] and César Award for Best Male Newcomer in 2022 for Lost Illusions [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Xavier Giannoli
scheda film]).

An adaptation by the directorial duo of the novel What You Need from the Night by Laurent Petitmangin, the script tells a family story rooted in Lorraine, about a railway-worker father and his two sons, following the death of their mother.

Produced by Marie Guillaumond for Felicita Films and by Olivier Delbosc for Curiosa Films, The Quiet Son is being co-produced by France 3 Cinéma and by Belgium’s Umedia. The film, which has been pre-purchased by France Télévisions and Canal+, also boasts support from the Grand Est region, where the entirety of the shoot will take place until mid-July, with Belgian DoP Frédéric Noirhomme (Playground [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Laura Wandel
scheda film]) in charge of the cinematography. The remaining partners will be made public at a later date.

As a reminder, Curiosa Films, which recently premiered The Pot au Feu [+leggi anche:
recensione
scheda film] by Tran Anh Hung (set to be released in France on 8 November) and All to Play For [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Delphine Deloget
scheda film] by Delphine Deloget (scheduled for release on 22 November) at Cannes, currently has La Chambre de Mariana [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
scheda film] by Emmanuel Finkiel in production, and Making Of [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Cédric Kahn
scheda film] by Cédric Kahn, The Braid [+leggi anche:
recensione
scheda film] by Laetitia Colombani, and the comedy Open Season by Frédéric Forestier and Antonin Fourlon (release on 20 December) in post-production.