24/09/2019 - Julie Moulier, Lucie Debay and Arnaud Valois star in the filmmaker’s new feature. Le Bureau is producing and selling the film worldwide

Director Fabienne Godet (© Le Bureau/Hassen Brahiti)

Fabienne Godet finished shooting Lifelines [+see also:
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In the cast, Fabienne Godet is reunited with Julie Moulier (excellent in Our Wonderful Lives and previously appreciated in Let the Girls Play [+see also:
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film profile] and nominated that same year for a Most Promising Actor César Award; also appearing in Our Wonderful Lives).

Written by the director together with Claire Mercier and Franck Vassal, the script centres on Esther, a thirty-something translator. One day she receives, without knowing why, a manuscript, written like a personal diary. Its content echoes her own life and she decides to find the author in order to find out about the ending of the story, what happens after the diary stops. A quest which will allow for her own return to life…

Produced by Bertrand Faivre (faithful partner of the filmmaker's) for Le Bureau, Lifelines has been pre-bought by Ciné+ and OCS and benefited from the support of the Occitanie and Pays de la Loire regions, as well as that of the Cofinova Sofica. The eight weeks of filming took place in France, Spain and Portugal. The feature will be released in the first semester of 2020 and international sales will be handled by The Bureau Sales.

Parisian company Le Bureau Films currently has in filming Tax Me If You Can [+see also:
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For the record, Le Bureau Films and its UK sister company The Bureau have recently produced, among other titles, Jessica Hausner’s Little Joe [+see also:
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