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Ann Sirot e Raphaël Balboni girano Un détour par Diane

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- I due cineasti di Bruxelles sono sul set del loro terzo lungometraggio, con protagonista la giovane attrice Ninon Borséi e prodotto da Les Films du Fleuve

Ann Sirot e Raphaël Balboni girano Un détour par Diane
L'attrice Ninon Borséi (© Maël G. Lagadec)

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Production is under way on Un détour par Diane (lit. "A Detour by Diane"), the new film by the offbeat duo consisting of Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni. After a strong streak of short films (La Version du Loup, Lucha Libre, Much in Common and With Thelma, which won the Magritte Award for Best Fiction Short in 2018), Sirot and Balboni made a splash with their debut feature, Madly in Life [+leggi anche:
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, an atypical comedy about how a couple face one parent’s neurodegenerative illness, made on a modest budget but successful on the festival circuit. This was followed by The (Ex)perience of Love [+leggi anche:
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, a burlesque neo-romcom that opened the Cannes Critics’ Week in 2023.

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However, it seems unlikely that the writer-director duo will reprise that very specific tone with this new project, which sees them tackle another highly codified genre and make it their own: the western. The story follows Diane, who desires men as much as she hates them. When she learns that her mother was raped in her youth, the shock runs deep. It’s a surprise, and yet it explains everything. Diane has only one idea in mind – to avenge her mother. Except that Mum has only one idea in mind herself – to finally become the woman she should have been. Between one woman who wants people to remember and another who wants people to forget, things get tense. And so while it's a western, it's also a revenge movie and a family drama - and surely one with their trademark dash of comedy and whimsy.

Diane is played by Ninon Borséi, an actress who rose to fame in their short Much in Common and who was seen again in their previous feature The (Ex)perience of Love as well as in Life's a Bitch [+leggi anche:
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. Opposite her, we find Sandrine Blancke (nominated at the European Film Awards for Toto the Hero and winner of the Magritte Award for Best Actress for Love according to Dalva [+leggi anche:
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, seen at Venice this year in Silent Rebellion [+leggi anche:
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). The Belgian cast also includes Lucas Meister (the series Good People), Jo Deseure (Madly in Life, Milano [+leggi anche:
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) and Peter Van den Begin (Magritte Award for Best Actor for King of the Belgians [+leggi anche:
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, recently in The Weeping Walk [+leggi anche:
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), along with French actress Naidra Ayadi (César Award for Most Promising Actress for Poliss [+leggi anche:
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, recently in The Origin of Evil [+leggi anche:
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).

After a lengthy collaboration with Hélicotronc, Sirot and Balboni are being produced for the first time by Delphine Tomson for Les Films du Fleuve, the Dardenne brothers’ company, which has been increasingly supporting young Belgian filmmakers of late, and which, for instance, has just staged Adam's Sake [+leggi anche:
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by Laura Wandel. Un détour par Diane is being co-produced by Alice Bloch for Marianne Productions (France) and Julien Ralanto for Révérence Productions (France), with support from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, the Tax Shelter (Casa Kafka Pictures), Be TV, RTBF and Proximus. International sales will be handled by Pyramide, which is also releasing the film in France, while Imagine Film Distribution will do so in Belgium.

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