Drugs and the family in Tout est pardonné
Starting with one week in Austria on May 22, shooting on Tout est pardonné (lit. “All is Forgiven”), the debut feature by French-Danish director Mia Hansen-Löve is currently underway around Paris, where the team will spend six weeks.
Filming is scheduled to end on July 12, following seven days in the rural Limousin region. The 25 year-old director – also a journalist at Cahiers du cinéma – was acclaimed for her first short Après mûre réflexion (lit. “After Mature Reflection”), which screened at Locarno and picked up awards in Bordeaux in 2004. Her beginnings behind the camera were followed by Un pur esprit (lit. “A Pure Mind”) and Offre spéciale.
For the two leading roles of Tout est pardonné, Hansen-Löve has chosen Austria’s Marie-Christine Friedrich and France’s Paul Blain. The cast also stars Carole Franck, Olivia Ross, and young sisters Carole and Victoire Rousseau in a film about the break-up of a couple and its consequences twelve years later.
The script, written by Hansen-Löve, and read at this year’s Premiers Plans d’Angers festival, is based on a story that begins in 1992 with two 30 year-olds, Victor (Paul Blain) and Annette (Marie-Christine Friedrich), and their young daughter Pamela, in Vienna. In spite of Victor’s drug addiction, the family manages to stay together and Annette hopes that their departure for Paris will improve the situation.
However, in France, everything goes downhill and the couple break up. Victor falls in love and moves in with a young woman who supplies him with drugs, while Annette leaves him and disappears with their daughter. Twelve years later, Pamela discovers that her father still lives in Paris and decides to go to see him.
Originally an idea by Humbert Balsan, Tout est pardonné is being produced by David Thion, Philippe Martin and Géraldine Michelot for Les Films Pelléas.
The film received an advance of receipts of €430,000 from the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), backing from the Ile de France and Limousin regions and a pre-sales agreement from TPS.
Pyramide, who are handling international sales, will release the film in France in the second half of 2007.
(Translated from French)
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