"What does it mean to resist? How do you fight for your values to the point you’d die for them?" This is the premise of László Nemes’ movie Moulin (French title: Jean Moulin), which commenced filming on Monday 15 September. This is the Hungarian director’s 4th feature film (and his first in the French language) after Son of Saul [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (awarded Cannes’ Grand Prize in 2015, as well as the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2016), Sunset [+leggi anche:
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intervista: László Nemes
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The cast is led by the dazzling Gilles Lellouche (nominated for the Best Actor César in 2019 and 2022, and in the Best Supporting Role category in 2011 and 2018, recently seen in And Their Children After Them [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], and hitting French cinemas on 15 October in Dog 51 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Matthias Glasner
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Written by Olivier Demangel (of Atlantics [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], Dog 51, the series Class Act and Kabul [+leggi anche:
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Moulin is being produced by Alain Goldman on behalf of Pitchipoï Productions and Montmartre Films, in co-production with TF1 Films Productions. Pre-purchased by Disney+ and HBO Max, the feature film will be distributed in France by Studio TF1 and is sold worldwide by US firm 193 Legendary. The director is reuniting with his usual partner in crime Mátyás Erdély for the film’s photography.

For the record, Pitchipoï Productions recently oversaw production on Valérie Donzelli’s At Work [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Valérie Donzelli
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