31/05/2021 - Filming is imminent on Céline Devaux’s first feature film, produced by Les Films du Worso together with O Som e a Furia and Scope Pictures, and sold by Elle Driver

Actress Blanche Gardin and actor Laurent Lafitte

The first clapperboard is set to slam on 2 June for Everybody Loves Jeanne [+see also:
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The cast will be led by Blanche Gardin (recently at her very best in Delete History [+see also:
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Written by the director herself, the story revolves around Jeanne who was loved by everyone when she was young. Now, at forty years of age, Jeanne despises herself. Drowning in debt, she must travel to Lisbon to sell the apartment which belonged to her mother who died two years previously because of Jeanne. On the way she meets Jean: they were at high school together and he refuses to leave her alone.…

Everybody Loves Jeanne is produced by Sylvie Pialat and Benoît Quainon on behalf of Paris firm Les Films du Worso and is co-produced by Portugal’s O Som e a Furia, Belgium’s Scope Pictures and France 3 Cinéma. Pre-purchased by Canal+, Ciné+ and France 3, the feature film also benefits from a CNC advance on receipts, as well as funding from the Portuguese ICA fund for minority co-productions, from the French-Portuguese fund (ICA/CNC), and from the SOFICA companies La Banque Postale Image, Indéfilms and Cinéventure, without forgetting finance in the form of French tax credit, the Portuguese cash rebate, Belgium’s Tax Shelter initiative and, in the development phase, backing from Ciclic, the CNC and Procirep. The nine-week film shoot will unfold until 6 August in Lisbon and Paris, with Belgium’s Olivier Boonjing heading up photography (he won the 2017 Magritte in his speciality for Parasol [+see also:
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For the record, Les Films du Worso are currently overseeing post-production on The Lockdown Tower [+see also:
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(Translated from French)