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Bruno Dumont’s Joan of Arc gets an advance on receipts from the CNC

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- The CNC will also be backing the upcoming films by Nicolas Pariser, Yossi Aviram, Yolande Zauberman and Claus Drexel

Bruno Dumont’s Joan of Arc gets an advance on receipts from the CNC
Director Bruno Dumont (© R Arpajou / 3B)

Five projects have been accepted during the final 2017 session of the CNC’s second advance on receipts committee. Standing out among them is Joan of Arc [+see also:
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interview: Bruno Dumont
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by Bruno Dumont, which will be the ninth feature-length fiction film by the director, who has been selected seven times at Cannes (winner of a Caméra d’Or Special Mention in 1997 with The Life of Jesus; a two-time winner of the Grand Jury Prize, in 1999 with Humanity and in 2006 with Flanders [+see also:
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; also in competition in 2016 with Slack Bay [+see also:
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Q&A: Bruno Dumont
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; on the Un Certain Regard line-up in 2011 with Hors Satan [+see also:
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; and in the Directors’ Fortnight in 2014 with Li’l Quinquin [+see also:
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 and in 2017 with Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc [+see also:
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interview: Bruno Dumont
film profile
]
), and who has been in competition once at Venice (Twentynine Palms [+see also:
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 in 2003) and once at Berlin (Camille Claudel 1915 [+see also:
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interview: Bruno Dumont
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 in 2013).

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Produced by Jean Bréhat for 3B ProductionsJoan of Arc will be the sequel to Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc (which was originally conceived for television), but no more details are available for the time being. As a reminder, over the summer Dumont shot Coincoin and the Extra-humans, the second season of the Li’l Quinquin series, a Taos Films and Arte production that will once again spawn a film version.

Another advance on receipts goes to Alice and the Mayor [+see also:
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interview: Nicolas Pariser
film profile
]
, the second feature by Nicolas Pariser, following The Great Game [+see also:
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]
 (revealed at Locarno in 2015, and winner of the Louis-Delluc Prize for Best Debut Film the same year). Produced by Emmanuel Agneray for Bizibi Productions, the film, which will be co-produced by Arte France Cinéma, will star Fabrice Luchini and Anaïs Demoustier, and will portray the encounter between a young Ecole Normale student and a small-town mayor in the midst of a professional crisis. 

The CNC will also be throwing its weight behind Il n’y pas d’ombre dans le désert by Israel’s Yossi Aviram, the sophomore feature by the filmmaker, following The Dune [+see also:
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interview: Yossi Aviram
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 (unveiled at San Sebastián in 2013, in the New Directors section). Production duties will be handled by Les Films du Poisson.

Lastly, two documentaries will be supported through the advance on receipts: M [+see also:
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 by Yolande Zauberman (who turned heads in the Orizzonti section at Venice in 2011 with Would You Have Sex with an Arab? [+see also:
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 and in the Berlinale Forum in 2004 with Paradise Now), which will be produced by CG Cinéma, and Leur Mélusine by Germany’s Claus Drexel (nominated for the Louis-Delluc Prize in 2014 for Au bord du monde [+see also:
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 and who is set to bring out America [+see also:
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 in theatres on 14 March this year), which will be staged by Des Idées Films.

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(Translated from French)

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