23/06/2014 - Sergi Lopez, Eric Cantona, Céline Sallette, Romane Bohringer and Guillaume Gouix set to star in the Mezzanine Films production

According to Cineuropa’s sources, on 28 July in South West France, shooting will kick off for the feature debut by filmmaker and theatrical/operatic director Laurent Laffargue: Les Rois du monde [+see also:
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film profile] (lit. “The Kings of the World”). The cast includes famous Spanish actor Sergi López (who will be seen in cinemas at the end of August in Daniel Monzón’s El Niño), former footballing legend Eric Cantona (Les rencontres d'après minuit [+see also:
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film profile], The Salvation [+see also:
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interview: Kristian Levring
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interview: Adèle Haenel
film profile], popular recently in My Soul Healed by You [+see also:
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interview: Christa Théret
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interview: Teddy Lussi-Modeste
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film profile] and Hors les murs [+see also:
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interview: David Lambert
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Written by the director together with Frédérique Moreau, the story is set in Casteljaloux, a small village in Lot-et-Garonne, France, where men are top of the pile, the kings of the world: friendship, violence, saying whatever they want, getting drunk… The path of 17-year-old Romain, who is in love with Pascaline and is training to be an actor, crosses that of Jeannot, a 44-year-old man who has just been released from prison and has one only thing on his mind: getting back the woman he has always loved, who is now shacked up with the butcher…

Produced by Mathieu Bompoint for Mezzanine Films, Les Rois du monde is benefitting from backing from the Aquitaine region, the Lot-et-Garonne department (where the entire shoot will take place from 28 July to 29 August) and Movies Angels, among other sources. Distribution in French theatres will be handled by Jour2Fête.

Since being founded, Mezzanine Films has produced four feature films, all of which have gone down well with the critics: Free Hands [+see also:
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film profile] by Estelle Larrivaz (2012), Lightning by Manuela Morgaine (Rotterdam 2013) and The Good Life [+see also:
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interview: Jean Denizot
film profile] by Jean Denizot (Europa Cinemas Label at Venice Days in 2013).

(Translated from French)