07/04/2021 - Annabelle Lengronne, Stéphane Bak, Ahmed Sylla and Kenzo Sambin are in the cast of the second film by the filmmaker who won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes in 2017, produced by Blue Monday

Actress Annabelle Lengronne and actors Stéphane Bak and Ahmed Sylla

The first clapperboard slammed yesterday on Mother And Son [+see also:
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interview: Léonor Serraille
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interview: Joël Karekezi
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interview: André Téchiné
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Written by the director, the script is set in the late 1980s. A woman arrives from Africa and moves to the Paris banlieue with her two sons. From this move to the present day, the film will chart the construction and the deconstruction of an ordinary family…

Produced by Sandra da Fonseca for Blue Monday Productions (with associate producers Bertrand Gore and Nathalie Mesuret), Mother And Son is co-produced by France 3 Cinéma. Pre-bought by France 3, Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature is also supported by the CNC via its advance on receipts and its Images de la diversité fund, by the Île-de-France and Normandy regions (which had also given the project rewriting support), the Gan Foundation Gan for Cinema, and the Soficas Palatine and Cofinova. For the record, the project also benefited from writing support from Ciclic ( Centre-Val de Loire region).

The eight weeks of filming will begin on 2 June in Île-de-France and Normandy with Hélène Louvart (who made a strong impression last year for her work on Never Rarely Sometimes Always [+see also:
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For the record, Blue Monday Productions currently has in post-production A Story of Love and Desire by Leyla Bouzid (read the article), Little Lesson of Love by Ève Deboise (article) and Broadway [+see also:
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(Translated from French)