10/09/2019 - The Belgian filmmaker’s new film, provisionally intitled The Restless, will bring together Matthias Schoenaerts and Jasmine Trinca

Director Joachim Lafosse and actors Matthias Schoenaerts and Jasmine Trinca

There’s been a change of course for Belgian director Joachim Lafosse, whose previous four films have been produced by the Liège-based firm Versus Production (Loving Without Reason [+see also:
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We don’t know a lot about The Restless [+see also:
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The Belgian filmmaker will also be switching French producers; having previously worked with Les Films du Worso, headed up by Sylvie Pialat, his offerings will now be produced by Alexandre Gavras for KG Productions, who’ve given us Custody [+see also:
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It’s a busy time indeed for Stenola Productions, who are also planning to shoot the new work by the category-defying filmmaker Jan Bucquoy in mid-October. Following his success in the 1990s with The Sexual Life of the Belgians and Camping Cosmos, the director is returning with a new and partially autobiographical opus, The Last Temptation of the Belgians [+see also:
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(Translated from French)