14/11/2018 - The actor-director and Charlotte Gainsbourg topline this adaptation of the John Fante novel, which is being sold by StudioCanal

Actor-director Yvan Attal and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg

The shoot for My Stupid Dog [+see also:
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The filmmaker, who was nominated for the César Award for Best Actor in 2010 for Rapt and was popular at Toronto recently in the series Ad Vitam, is also among the cast of his new opus, alongside Charlotte Gainsbourg (Best Actress Award at Cannes in 2009 for Antichrist [+see also:
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Also standing out among the cast are Pascale Arbillot (Guy [+see also:
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The story, written by Attal himself, revolves around 50-year-old Henri, who is in the midst of a mid-life crisis. And who are the people responsible for his failures, his ailing sex drive and his backache? His wife and four children, of course! Just at the critical moment when he is taking stock of his life, of all the women he will never ever have again, and of all the cars he’ll never drive, an enormous, bad-mannered and overenthusiastic dog decides to move into his house, much to his delight, but to the great displeasure of the rest of his family – and especially his wife Cécile, whose unconditional love begins to falter.

Produced by Vincent Roget for Same Player, Georges Kern for Good Time Production and Florian Genetet-Morel for Montauk Films, My Stupid Dog is being co-produced by France 2 Cinéma and StudioCanal (which will oversee the French distribution from 30 October 2019 and the international sales). Having also been pre-purchased by Canal+, Ciné+ and C8, the feature was filmed over a nine-week period in Biarritz and Paris.

Same Player currently has the comedies No Filter [+see also:
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(Translated from French)