20/06/2017 - Gilles Lellouche and Guillaume Canet topline this film being produced by Curiosa and Sunrise, which will be sold abroad by Indie Sales

Actors Gilles Lellouche and Guillaume Canet

Since 12 June, Cédric Anger has been in Paris shooting Paris Pigalle [+see also:
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Written by the director (who was nominated for the César Award for Best Adaptation in 2015 for Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart and who also co-penned titles such as To Matthieu and, more recently, Golden Years [+see also:
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Produced by Olivier Delbosc for Curiosa Films and by Anne Rapczyk for Sunrise Films, Paris Pigalle is being co-produced by Belgian outfit Umedia. Having been pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, and received backing from the Manon, Cinémage, A Plus Image and Palatine Etoile Soficas, the film will be shot in Paris and the Paris region until 27 July, with Swiss cinematographer Thomas Hardmeier (winner of the 2014 César and Lumière Awards in his category for The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet [+see also:
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Curiosa Films, which unveiled Martin Provost’s The Midwife [+see also:
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(Translated from French)