Valerie Donzelli‘s anticipated movie “At Work” (“A Pied d’Oeuvre”), one of many three French motion pictures set to compete at this yr’s Venice, has been boarded by Gregoire Melin‘s worldwide gross sales banner Kinology.
Tailored from Franck Courtès’s autobiographical novel by the identical title, “At Work” is headlined by Bastien Bouillon (“The Night time of the twelfth”), who stars alongside Virginie Ledoyen (“Simply the Two of Us”), André Marcon and Marie Rivière.
“At Work” tells the true story of a profitable photographer (Bouillon) who provides up all the pieces to commit himself to writing and is confronted with poverty for the primary time. “This radical account, mixing readability and self-depreciation, portrays the journey of a person prepared to pay the final word worth for his freedom,” reads the synopsis.
Kinology has acquired worldwide gross sales to “At Work” and can introduce it to consumers on the Venice Movie Competition.
Donzelli described “At Work” as “the portrait of a person who leaves behind a cushty life to devotehimself to writing, finally slipping into precarity.”
“This radical and deeply private selection moved me profoundly. I needed to remain true to the honesty of his journey, its simplicity and self-discipline,” Donzelli continued.
Donzelli, who co-wrote the script with Gilles Marchand (“The Night time of the twelfth”), stated the movie’s protagonist is “upright, mild, and decided.” As such, “Bastien Bouillon rapidly emerged as the plain selection, together with his quiet power and understated presence,” she stated, including that the movie finally “questions the worth we place on a life pushed by a silent, unspectacular, but unstoppable ardour: the necessity to create, it doesn’t matter what.”
Bouillon is a rising French actor who gained greatest male newcomer on the Cesar Awards in 2023, and was final seen in Cannes’ acclaimed opening movie “Depart One Day.”
Donzelli, an actor-turned-filmmaker is rolling off “Simply the Two of Us,” a psychological thriller revolving a poisonous love, starring Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud. The film gained final yr’s Cesar Award for greatest tailored screenplay for Donzelli and Audrey Diwan, out of 4 nominations. Donzelli broke via internationally together with her second directorial outing, “Declaration of Warfare” which was impressed by her private story.
“At Work” is produced by Alain Goldman, the well-established producer of “La Vie en Rose” and “An Officer and a Spy,” at Pitchipoï Productions.
Diaphana will launch the movie in France, whereas Teodora will distribute it in Italy.
