Shot in the utmost secrecy in September, Arnaud Desplechin’s 11^th fiction feature film, Deception [+leggi anche:
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Shining bright at the head of the cast are Léa Seydoux (Cannes’ Palme d’Or winner in 2013 for Blue is the Warmest Colour [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ildikó Enyedi
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intervista: Leonie Benesch
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"During lockdown, whilst writing a script which would require wide distribution, extras, a complex schedule and lots of locations, a really old project which I’d left up in the air because I’d never worked out how I could do it, or convey its style, suddenly came back to me", explains Arnaud Deplechin in Libération. "Its modesty resonated with the circumstances imposed. Its characters were confined in their solitude, just like I was (…) Assisted by my co-screenwriter Julie Peyr [Editor’s note: nominated alongside the filmmaker for the 2014 Best Adaptation César and for the 2016 Best Original Screenplay trophy], I went through that old script from A to Z. As we wrote, it was as if a carpet were rolling out before us: our two heroes were trapped in the writer’s study, in the same way that we were confined by lockdown, and we found solutions for every problem we faced (…) Deception takes place in a time which now seems idyllic, before the Twin Towers collapsed and before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and it features refugees, notably women from the East." For the record, the novel is composed of a succession of conversations between Philip, an American novelist based in London for a time, and various women: his mistress, his wife and other less real and sometimes even dreamed female characters.

To date, Arnaud Desplechin has competed six times in Cannes (La Sentinelle in 1992, My Sex Life… Or How I Got Into An Argument in 1996, Esther Kahn in 2000, A Christmas Tale [+leggi anche:
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Produced by Pascal Caucheteux on behalf of Why Not Productions, Deception sees Desplechin working with director of photography Yorick Le Saux for the very first time (nominated for the 2015 César in his field for Clouds of Sils Maria [+leggi anche:
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