05/04/2019 - A Thelma Films production sold by SND, the director’s latest work stars Karin Viard, Benjamin Biolay, Lucas Englander, Laetitia Dosch and Pascale Arbillot

Actress Karin Viard and actor Benjamin Biolay

The first clapperboard is set to come out on 8 April for Appearances [+see also:
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film profile] (2007), Copacabana [+see also:
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film profile] (Cannes Critics’ Week 2010), Pauline détective [+see also:
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film profile] (2012), Paris Follies [+see also:
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film profile] (2016) and the collective film, Smiley (see our article).

Standing out among the cast are Karin Viard (Best Actress César in 2000, nominated again in 2005, 2012 and 2015 for The Bélier Family [+see also:
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interview: Emmanuel Finkiel
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interview: Christophe Honoré
film profile] by Christophe Honoré), the Austrian, Lucas Englander, Laetitia Dosch (2018 Lumières Award for Best Newcomer and nominated for Best Newcomer at the Cesar Awards in the same year, for Montparnasse Bienvenűe [+see also:
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interview: Léonor Serraille
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film profile], Gaspard At The Wedding [+see also:
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interview: Antony Cordier
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interview: Guillaume Senez
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interview: Danielle Arbid
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film profile]  and Little White Lies [+see also:
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Written by Marc Fitoussi and based on the novel, Betrayal, by Swedish author Karin Altvegen, the film is set against the backdrop of Vienna and its imperial palaces, the blue waters of the Danube and… the microscopic French community that lives in the city. The young, well looked-upon couple, Ève and Henri, who are parents to little Malo, have all the makings of a happy life. He is the conductor of the Opéra orchestra, she works at the Institut français. A life without fault, apparently. Until Henri falls for the charms of their son’s schoolteacher…

Produced by Christine Gozlan and David Poirot for Thelma Films, Appearances is co-produced by Belgian firm Scope Pictures and by SND. Pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, this feature film is also supported by the screen.brussels fund and by SOFICA funds, Palatine Étoile and Manon. The six-week film shoot is scheduled to run between 8 April and 22 May in Vienna and Brussels, with Antoine Roch helming cinematography. SND is in charge of distribution in France and sales (with the exception of the Benelux Union where sales will be handled by Telescope).

Other titles within the filmography of Thelma Film, a firm which started out with Orchestra Seats [+see also:
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film profile] by Emmanuel Finkiel, Daydreams [+see also:
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interview: Caroline Deruas
film profile] by Caroline Deruas and The Clink of Ice [+see also:
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film profile] by Bertrand Blier.

(Translated from French)