29/03/2005 - For her third feature, the successful Danièle Thompson has an interesting cast, gathering Cécile de France, Laura Morante, Valérie Lemercier, Albert Dupontel

Tomorrow, Danièle Thompson’s third feature, Fauteuils d’orchestre, will start shooting in Paris ; it should take nine weeks. For this comedy, the successful director —her previous movies, La Bûche (1999) and Décalage horaire (2002) both sold 1 to 1.5M tickets in France— has an interesting cast, gathering Cécile de France, Laura Morante, Valérie Lemercier, Albert Dupontel, and Claude Brasseur, around a very Parisian plot unraveling mainly at the Bar des Théâtres on the Avenue Montaigne, near the Champs-Elysées. A provincial girl played by Cécile de France stops at the bar and meets several characters, a famous actress (Valérie Lemercier), a concert pianist (Albert Dupontel) and an art collector (Claude Brasseur), who all wish they had a different life. The script was co-written, as usual, by the director and her son Christopher Thompson (who is also acting in the film) with the idea of showing that luxury does not necessarily make people happy.

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This €8M film is produced by Thelma Films, a company recently created by Christine Gozlan, who has been Alain Sarde’s partner for a long time now ; he handles the artistic production of the film. The film is coproduced by TF1 Films Production and StudioCanal which is also dealing with the international sales. Mars Distribution is in charge of releasing the movie on the French screens.

(Translated from French)