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David Lambert filming Troisièmes noces, starring Bouli Lanners and Rachel Mwanza

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- The Belgian director kicked off the shoot for his third feature in Brussels last week; it is being staged by Frakas Productions

David Lambert filming Troisièmes noces, starring Bouli Lanners and Rachel Mwanza
Director David Lambert

Troisièmes noces [+see also:
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 is the third feature to be directed by David Lambert, following Beyond the Walls [+see also:
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interview: David Lambert
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and All Yours [+see also:
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. Lambert has also forged a successful career as a screenwriter, having co-penned titles such as Keeper [+see also:
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interview: Guillaume Senez ­
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
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by Guillaume Senez (Magritte Award for Best Debut Film in February), Post Partum [+see also:
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interview: Delphine Noels
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]
by Delphine Noëls and The Boat Race [+see also:
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interview: Bernard Bellefroid, directo…
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by Bernard Bellefroid

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Toplining the cast is the unmistakable Bouli Lanners; he is joined by young actress Rachel Mwanza, who rose to fame in War Witch by Kim Nguyen, in which she played a child soldier, a role that earned her the Best Actress Award at Berlin. Bouli Lanners plays Martin, a whimsical fifty-something homosexual widower, who is offered the opportunity to enter into a marriage of convenience with a 20-year-old Congolese woman, Tamara. These two people, who could not be more different from each other, will have to make their love believable in the eyes of the immigration authorities, and by dint of pretending, they will end up really falling in love... in their own particular way!

These two fine actors are flanked by an eclectic Belgian cast comprising Virginie Hocq, Eric Kabongo, Jean-Luc Couchard and Jean-Benoît Ugeux

Troisièmes noces is an adaptation of a successful novel by Flemish author Tom Lanoye. Coincidentally, another film adapted from one of his works, Speechless [+see also:
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by Hilde Van Mieghem, can be found on the cinema listings at the moment. 

The movie is being produced by Liège-based outfit Frakas Productions, which is riding high at the moment, as it has just wrapped the shoot for Seule à mon mariage [+see also:
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, the feature debut by Marta Bergman (see the news), and recently co-produced Julia Ducournau’s shocker Raw [+see also:
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. Troisièmes noces is being co-produced by Luxembourg’s Bidibul, as well as by Canadian firm Ema Films. The film has received backing from the CCA, Wallimage, the Film Fund Luxembourg, the SODEC and Téléfilm Canada, together with RTBF, Proximus and Casa Kafka. The shoot will continue throughout the whole of April.

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(Translated from French)

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