Zem and Forestier caught in “One Night” of traps
Four films were selected at the first 2011 session of the Ile-de-France Regional Support Fund for Technical Film and Audiovisual Industries. Standing out among them is Une Nuit (“One Night”), the fourth feature by Philippe Lefèbvre, whose six-week shoot wrapped last Monday. The film stars Roschdy Zem (recently acclaimed in Outside the Law [+see also:
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Co-scripted by the director, Simon Michael and Philippe Szymborski, the film recounts the last night of Simon Weiss, who is in charge of nightlife in Paris. Faced with a lawyer who is using his lifelong friend, Weiss will gradually understand his solitude and realise a trap has been set under the authority of a policewoman lying in wait. Will he know how to defend himself or will he fall? In any case, he will have settled his scores and protected his wife and child in this Paris by night, the film’s omnipresent third protagonist.
Une Nuit is produced by Les Films Manuel Munz for €4.7m. The budget includes co-production support from France 2 Cinéma, Tout Sur L’écran Cinéma and Hole in One, a pre-acquisition from Orange Cinéma Séries, backing from Soficinéma and €330,000 from the Ile-de-France region. As TF1 Droits Audiovisuels has bought all the rights, the theatrical release will no doubt be handled by UGC and international sales by TF1 International.
The Ile-de-France region also selected Benoît Jacquot’s Farewell, My Queen (GMT Productions), which will start shooting in May. Starring Gérard Depardieu, Léa Seydoux, Diane Kruger, Virginie Ledoyen and Noémie Lvovsky, the film reconstructs the era of the French Revolution.
Finally, Ile-de-France will support Valérie Donzelli’s Declaration of War (in post-production – Rectangle Productions – international sales: Wild Bunch); and Malik Chibane’s comedy Pauvre Richard!! (“Poor Richard”, Alhambra Films).
(Translated from French)
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