12/10/2010

Shooting starts today on Philippe Lioret’s seventh feature All our Desires. After his hit films Don’t Worry, I’m Fine [+see also:
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film profile] (887,000 admissions in France, Cesar 2007 awards for Best Female Newcomer and Best Supporting Actor, nominations for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay) and Welcome [+see also:
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film profile] (1.17m admissions in France and over 260,000 internationally, Lux Prize 2009, Europa Cinemas Label and Audience Award in the Berlinale Panorama 2009, ten Cesar 2010 nominations), the director is tackling a loose adaptation of Emmanuel Carrère’s novel D'autres Vies que la Mienne (“Other Lives than My Own”).

The cast includes Vincent Lindon (nominated for the Best Actor Cesar 2010 for Welcome), Marie Gillain (Coco Before Chanel [+see also:
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Co-scripted by Lioret and his collaborator Emmanuel Courcol (on his fourth film with the director), the film centres on the encounter between Claire (Gillain), a young 30-year-old judge at Lyon magistrates’ court, and Stéphane (Lindon), a seasoned and disenchanted judge whom she draws into her fight against excessive debt. Something emerges between them, a mixture of rebellion, desire, feelings and above all an urgent need to live.

Produced by the director’s company Fin Août Production, All our Desires has co-production support from Mars Films, Nord-Ouest Films, France 3 Cinéma and Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, and pre-acquisitions from Canal + and Ciné Cinéma. The 11-week shoot will take place in the Rhône-Alpes (Grenoble and Valence) and Ile-de-France regions.

The film will be released in French theatres by Mars Distribution, while international sales are still under negotiation.

(Translated from French)