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Stan: Magaly Richard-Serrano dives into the world of hip hop

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- The director is currently shooting her second feature, produced by Blue Monday and with music composed by Oxmo Puccino

Stan: Magaly Richard-Serrano dives into the world of hip hop
Director Magaly Richard-Serrano

Having turned heads with the young female boxer in her feature debut, Dans les cordes [+see also:
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(2007), director Magaly Richard-Serrano is returning to film, after she took a detour via TV (which earned her awards at Luchon and La Rochelle). Her new film, Stan [+see also:
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, is currently being shot and revolves around the misfortunes of a hip-hop group fronted by a woman. The cast includes Annabelle Lengronne (who made an appearance in A Better Life [+see also:
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and Mercuriales [+see also:
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), William Lebghil (who could be spotted in Love at First Fight [+see also:
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), Ralph Amoussou (nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2009 for With a Little Help from Myself [+see also:
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, giving fine performances in such films as Diaz – Don’t Clean up This Blood [+see also:
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and Under the Starry Sky [+see also:
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), Jackee Toto and Doudou Masta. Interestingly, the original music has been composed by the famous rapper Oxmo Puccino (who won at the Victoires de la Musique awards in 2010 and 2013, in the "best urban music album" category).

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Written by Claude Le Pape (nominated for the César Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2015 for Love at First Fight) and Magaly Richard Serrano, the story recounts the last-ditch tour by Varek, an unusual hip-hop group. It is fronted by Stan, real name Eliane: dedicated to serving her art, she has spent 30 years perfecting her golden flow and bad faith on the decks. She can count her allies on one hand: her younger, six-and-a-half-foot-tall brother who would prefer to lead a normal life, her two worn-out mates from the council estate and a new DJ, who is as white as they are black. From tiny rooms off the beaten track in hotels on the outskirts of the city, limping along at top volume, Varek is about to go a lot further than they expected. And Stan will not really end up where she had planned. It is their time to shine...

Produced by Nathalie Mesuret and Bertrand Gore for Blue Monday Productions, Stan is benefiting from support from the CNC’s advance on receipts, pre-purchases by OCS (first window) and Ciné+, backing from the Ile-de-France and Upper Normandy regions, and support from the Cofinova Sofica, the Images of Diversity Fund and the Val-de-Marne department. The shoot, which kicked off with a week in Paris, then continued for three weeks in Upper Normandy and will now head back to the capital for three additional weeks. Distribution in French theatres will be handled by Version Originale/Condor in the second quarter of 2016. International sales will be managed by Other Angle Pictures.

Blue Monday Productions, whose filmography includes such titles as Goodbye Morocco [+see also:
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, Lost Paradise [+see also:
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and L'Oiseau [+see also:
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, currently has A peine j'ouvre les yeux [+see also:
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by Leyla Bouzid (distribution handled by Shellac – date yet to be announced) and the Belgian-French production Le coeur régulier [+see also:
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by Vanja d’Alcantara (read the article – starring Isabelle Carré, Niels Schneider and Fabrizio Rongione – distributed by Version Originale/Condor – date TBC) in post-production.

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(Translated from French)

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