EXCLUSIVE: Sophie Fillières’ Ma vie ma gueule is now in post-production
- Starring in the cast of this Christmas in July production sold by The Party Film Sales are Agnès Jaoui, Philippe Katerine, Édouard Sulpice, Angelina Woreth, Valérie Donzelli and Emmanuel Salinger
7 July saw Sophie Fillières wrap filming in Scotland on Ma vie ma gueule, the director’s 7th feature film after Grande Petite (1993), Ouch (screened out of competition in Locarno 2000), Nice Girl (gracing the Contemporary World Cinema section in Toronto 2005), Pardon My French [+see also:
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film profile] (selected for the 2014 Berlinale’s Panorama line-up) and Where Margaux Meets Margaux [+see also:
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The cast includes Agnès Jaoui (recently touring cinemas in Le Cours de la Vie [+see also:
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interview: Frédéric Sojcher
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interview: Guillaume Brac
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interview: François Ozon
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interview: Valérie Donzelli
film profile], in Cannes) and Emmanuel Salinger (awarded the Best Newcomer César in 1993, and well-received in Cannes this year thanks to The Pot Au Feu [+see also:
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Written by Fillières herself, the story revolves around Barberie Bichette who’s known as Barbie, much to her dismay, and who might have been beautiful, loved, a good mother to her children, a trustworthy colleague and a great lover, but now her life can be sombre, brutal, and often absurd, and it feels very strange for her to be 55 years old (at the very least!). It was fated, inevitable, but what approach should she now take towards herself, towards others, and even towards life…? Barbie finally gets some distance, quite literally, and it’s elsewhere, on the other side of things, in the wilderness of the Scottish Highlands, that her life opens up again, unexpected and full of light…
Ma vie ma gueule is produced by Julie Salvador on behalf of Christmas in July, and is notably backed by a CNC advance on receipts. The five-week film shoot unfurled in Paris, in the Paris region, in Dieppe and in Scotland, with Emmanuelle Collinot heading up cinematography. Distribution in French cinemas is entrusted to Jour2Fête while international sales fall to The Party Film Sales.
For the record, Christmas in July are releasing Summer Frost [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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