28/05/2021 - The French institution will also throw its weight behind movies by Arnaud Desplechin, Lucie Borleteau, Virgil Vernier, Rabah Ameur Zaimeche, Kim Chapiron and Roland Edzard, as well as five first films
film profile] (awarded the Caméra d’Or in Cannes 2016, as well as three Césars – including Best First Film – and two Lumières trophies in 2017). This Easy Tiger and Haut et Court production will be a swashbuckling film with a distinctly female flavour.
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An advance on receipts has also been promised to
Arnaud Desplechin’s
Marion Cotillard and
Likewise appearing on the list of the lucky few is
Century Island, which will be
Virgil Vernier’s 3rd feature after
Written by the director, the story revolves around a 27-year-old man with Down’s syndrome called Théo who lives with his father in a house hidden away in the thick of a forest. They live together in harmony with the surrounding flora and fauna but, one day, his father goes away, leaving Théo alone with his inner world… He embarks upon an odyssey which sees him reinvent himself, open himself up to the world and experiment with freedom, attempting to discover the nature of things, but also the nature of beings…
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