09/10/2020 - The director also stars in the film, alongside Virginie Efira, Laetitia Casta, Mathieu Kassovitz, Nathalie Baye, Patrick Chesnais and Gilles Cohen. A Trésor Films production sold by Pathé

Actors Guillaume Canet, Virginie Efira and Laetitia Casta

Final stretch for the shoot of Lui [+see also:
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film profile] (3,1 million admissions in France and four 2007 César awards including Best Director), Little White Lies [+see also:
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film profile] (5,4 millions viewers in France, two nominations at the 2011 César awards), Blood Ties [+see also:
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film profile] (out of competition in Cannes in 2013), Rock’n Roll [+see also:
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film profile] (1,3 million entries in France in 2017) and Little White Lies 2 [+see also:
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The cast includes the director himself (seen recently in La Belle Époque [+see also:
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interview: Nicolas Bedos
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interview: Anne Fontaine
film profile], on 21 October in Bye Bye Morons [+see also:
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film profile] and next year in Benedetta [+see also:
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interview: Louis Garrel
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interview: Delphine Lehericey
film profile], and who has just finished filming Selon la police and La croisade). Also in the film are Mathieu Kassovitz (appreciated recently in The Wolf's Call [+see also:
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film profile], Tout simplement noir [+see also:
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interview: Frédéric Lavigne
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interview: Nicolas Maury
interview: Nicolas Maury
film profile] and next January in Haute couture), Patrick Chesnais and Gilles Cohen.

Written by Guillaume Canet, the script focuses on a composer who is in need of inspiration. Having just left his wife and children, he thinks he'll find refuge in an old house on a deserted Breton island. In this strange and isolated place, he will find only an out-of-tune piano and visitors determined not to leave him in peace.

Produced by Alain Attal for Trésor Films, Lui is co-produced by TF1 Films Productions, Pathé, Canéo Films and Belgian companies Artemis Production and Shelter Prod. Also pre-bought by Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature film will be shot during a total of 22 days, with filming (which began on 14 September) taking place entirely at Belle-Ile-en-Mer. André Chemetoff (The World is Yours [+see also:
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Trésor Films will also be releasing in French cinemas Laurent Lafitte’s The Origin of the World [+see also:
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interview: Laurent Lafitte
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(Translated from French)