Five years after Le Grand Bain, Gilles Lelouch returns behind the camera for L’Amour ouf, an adaptation of Neville Thompson’s novel, a project the actor-director has been working on for more than 10 years.
Billed as an “ultra-violent musical and romantic comedy”, the story takes place in a seedy part of Dublin and follows the love woes of Jack and Joneser. François Civil and Adele Exarchopoulos will play the main roles.
Francois Civil and Adele Exarchopoulos
The cast around François Civil and Adele Exarchopoulos will include Mallory Vaneke (said in Les Pires), Malik Fricka (recently seen in Apaches), Alain Chabat, Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Lacoste, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Élodie Bouchez. , Karim Leclew, Raphael Cuenard, and Anthony Bajon. Le Film Français has just released a poster from the Cannes Film Festival featuring the entire cast.
The film, which has just begun shooting, is co-written by Gilles Lelouch and Audrey Divan, who recently He gave an interview to Figaro Madame magazineFor the Cannes 2023 special edition.
“I liked the romantic dimension of the story, its fresco side, the description of the social environment that speaks to me and the era – the 1980s and 1990s, which are my teenage years and youth. I’ve always liked mixing genres, and this novel seemed perfect for that exercise.“, develops Gilles Lelouche in the columns of the magazine.
Audrey Divan performs:What I loved about the book is what he saw in it, his vision of time, of romanticism, of all the questions of determinism that this subject raises, how we get lost and find ourselves in life. For L’Amour ouf, Gilles forced us to take time, to reflect, to reflect, to constantly revise in order to get to the heart of the story. It really changed the way I think about writing.“.
The shooting for this movie with the XXL actor will be long (18 weeks) and the budget will be very high: 32 million euros budget, according to Variety. Gilles Lelouch’s L’Amour ouf is already scheduled for release on October 16, 2024.
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