The final clapperboard slammed today, Friday 1 August, on Les Caprices de l’Enfant Roi, which is Michel Leclerc’s 8th fiction feature film after The Names of Love [+leggi anche:
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The cast stars Artus (A Little Something Extra, Block Pass [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Antoine Chevrollier
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intervista: Emmanuel Mouret
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intervista: Cédric Klapisch
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intervista: Hafsia Herzi
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intervista: Nicolas Bedos
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intervista: Arnaud e Jean-Marie Larrieu
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Written by Michel Leclerc himself, in league with Baya Kasmi (awarded the 2011 Best Original Screenplay César for The Names of Love and nominated again in 2015 for Hippocrates [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Thomas Lilti
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Les Caprices de l’Enfant Roi is being produced by Isabelle Grellat on behalf of Mandarin & Compagnie and by Guillaume Renouil for Elephant Story, in co-production with Le Pacte (who are managing distribution in French cinemas). The film has been pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, and enjoys an advance on receipts from the CNC and from the Pays de la Loire region, where part of the 8-week film shoot unfolded (having kicked off on 16 June and also taken the team to Île-de-France). Photography is headed up by Alexis Kavyrchine (awarded the 2021 César in his speciality for Bye Bye Morons [+leggi anche:
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For the record, Mandarin & Compagnie recently oversaw production on Alpha [+leggi anche:
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