The first clapperboard is due to slam imminently, in Brittany, on Hors saison [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
entrevista: Stéphane Brizé
ficha de la película], which will be the 10th feature film by Stéphane Brizé, who has been selected twice in competition in Cannes (The Measure of a Man [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
entrevista: Stéphane Brizé
ficha de la película] in 2015 and At War [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
entrevista: Stéphane Brizé
ficha de la película] in 2018), twice in Venice (A Woman’s Life [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
Q&A: Stéphane Brizé
ficha de la película] in 2016 and Another World [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
entrevista: Stéphane Brizé
ficha de la película] in 2021) and once in San Sebastián (Not Here To Be Loved [+lee también:
tráiler
ficha de la película] in 2005), and that’s without forgetting Le bleu des villes (Directors’ Fortnight 1999) and A Few Hours of Spring [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
ficha de la película] (Locarno’s Piazza Grande in 2012).

The film’s cast is led by French actor Guillaume Canet (currently in French cinemas in Asterix & Obélix: The Middle Kingdom [+lee también:
tráiler
ficha de la película] and whom we’ll be seeing in September via Just Philippot’s Acid [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
ficha de la película]) and Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher (recently seen in Three Floors [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
ficha de la película], Marcel! [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
entrevista: Jasmine Trinca
ficha de la película] and in her sister Alice’s Oscar-nominated short film Le pupille, and whom we’ll notably be seeing in her sister’s latest feature film La chimère later this year).

Written by the director alongside Marie Drucker, the story revolves around Laurent, a well-known actor nearing fifty, and Hélène, a forty-something piano teacher. He lives in Paris, she a small seaside town. They were in love fifteen or so years ago, then they separated. Time went by, each of them followed their own path, wounds healed, and their anger dissipated. But when Laurent tries to melt away his melancholy in a jacuzzi at a spa, he randomly bumps into Hélène …

Hors saison is produced by Sidonie Dumas on behalf of Gaumont, in co-production with France 3 Cinéma, and has been pre-purchased by Canal+ and France Télévisions. Filming will unspool in the French department of Morbihan, with Antoine Heberlé heading up photography.