03/10/2019 - Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais, Adèle Exarchopoulos and India Hair are among the cast of this Chi-Fou-Mi production, co-produced by Memento and Artémis, which will be sold by WTFilms and Wild Bunch

Since 16 September, the highly original Quentin Dupieux has been in the South of France shooting Mandibles [+see also:
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film profile] (Cannes Critics’ Week in 2010), Wrong [+see also:
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film profile] (in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance in 2012), Wrong Cops [+see also:
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film profile] (Piazza Grande at Locarno in 2013), Reality [+see also:
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film profile] (Orizzonti at Venice in 2014), Keep an Eye Out [+see also:
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film profile] (Best Screenplay Award at Sitges in 2018) and Deerskin [+see also:
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To topline the cast, the filmmaker has called upon the services of Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais, a comedy duo also known as Palmashow, who turned heads on the big screen in movies such as Babysitting [+see also:
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interview: Abdellatif Kechiche
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interview: Justine Triet
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film profile], which will be released in France on 29 January 2020, and also set to grace screens next year in BAC Nord), India Hair (nominated for the César and Lumières Awards for Most Promising Actress in 2013 for Camille Rewinds [+see also:
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film profile], popular in Staying Vertical [+see also:
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interview: Alain Guiraudie
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interview: Arnaud Valois
interview: Robin Campillo
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interview: Hafsia Herzi
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interview: Fabienne Godet
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The story, written by the director himself (who is also taking care of the film’s cinematography, editing and score), revolves around Jean-Gab and Manu, two simple-minded friends who find a giant fly that is still alive and stuck in a car boot. And so they decide to tame it and train it in order to earn a bit of cash with it…

Produced by Hugo Sélignac and Vincent Mazel for Chi-Fou-Mi Productions, Mandibles is being co-produced by Memento Films Productions, C8 Films and Belgium’s Artémis Productions. Having been pre-purchased by Canal+ and OCS, the feature, which will be shot for six-and-a-half weeks in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, is also being backed by the Indéfilms, Cofinova, Sofitvciné, Cinémage and Cinéaxe Soficas. Memento will handle the French distribution, whereas the international sales will be entrusted to WTFilms and Wild Bunch.

As a reminder, Chi-Fou-Mi Productions has The Wolf’s Call [+see also:
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film profile], Sink or Swim [+see also:
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film profile] and The World Is Yours [+see also:
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interview: Romain Gavras
film profile] in its recent filmography, and is about to wrap the shoot for BAC Nord (see the news).

(Translated from French)