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THE GIRL FROM MONACO(La Fille de Monaco) Official Selection: Palm Springs International Film Festival (2009), Hong Kong International Film Festival (2009), Rendez-vous with French Cinema (2009), Locarno International Film Festival (2008), Toronto International Film Festival (2008) Rated R for some sexual content and language Los Angeles Premiere Comedy/Drama France, 2008 In French with English subtitles 35mm/2.35:1/Color/Dolby Digital DTS/95 min Directed by: Anne Fontaine Written by: Benoît Graffin, Anne Fontaine, Jacques Fieschi Cinematography by: Patrick Blossier Editing by: Maryline Monthieux Original Music by: Philippe Rombi Produced by: Bruno Pésery & Philippe Carcassonne Production Company: Soudaine Compagnie, Ciné@ International sales: PYRAMIDE INTERNATIONAL 5, rue du Chevalier de Saint George 75008 Paris Tel: +33 1 40 20 05 51 www.pyramidefilms.com U.S. Distributor: MAGNOLIA PICTURES 49 West 27th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10001 Tel: 212 924 6701 www.magpictures.com With: Fabrice Luchini (Bertrand Beauvois), Roschdy Zem (Christophe Abadi), Louise Bourgoin (Audrey Varella), Stéphane Audran (Edith Lassalle), Gilles Cohen, Jeanne Balibar, Pierre Bourgeon www.lafilledemonaco-lefilm.com Bertrand Beauvois (Fabrice Luchini, The Discreet, Full Moon in Paris, The Aviator’s Wife, Colonel Chabert) is a brilliant lawyer hired to defend criminal Edith Lassalle (Stéphane Audran, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Babette’s Feast, The Butcher) at a high-profile trial in Monaco. Given the sensitive nature of the case, the overzealous bodyguard Christophe (Roschdy Zem, Bad Faith (COL•COA 2007), Days of Glory) is assigned to protect him. However, the danger seems to come less from organized crime than from local weather girl Audrey Varella (newcomer Louise Bourgoin, a real life personality on French TV channel Canal +). A stunning beauty, Audrey seduces and enthralls the otherwise austere lawyer, who falls head over heels for her. ABOUT ANNE FONTAINE A former actress and dancer, Anne Fontaine started her career as assistant director on a stage adaptation of Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night and won the Jean Vigo Prize with her first feature Love Affairs Usually End Badly (1992). After the provocative Dry Cleaning (COL•COA 1998), Best Screenplay Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1997, she confirmed her talent for creating complex and sexually ambiguous characters with Nathalie (COL•COA 2004). Acclaimed for her psychological dramas How I Killed My Father (Best Actor César in 2002 for Michel Bouquet) and In His Hands (COL•COA 2006), Anne Fontaine has also collaborated with her brother Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc for her Augustin trilogy. Starring Audrey Tautou, her new Film Coco Before Chanel is based on Edmonde Charles-Roux’s biography about the fashion designer. PRESS “…Bourgoin (previously a real-life celebrity weather girl) is impressive in her first dramatic role, garbed in a jaw-dropping selection of costumes, with a combo of directness and pure ambition that generates screen presence.” (Variety) “Anne Fontaine's "The Girl from Monaco" ("La Fille de Monaco") is a dark comedy that Billy Wilder would not have disavowed, featuring a confused lawyer, a ditsy blonde, sexuality in abundance and an emotional triangle that culminates in murder. (…)The movie's humor is sly and understated rather than laugh-out-loud, as Fontaine's literate script, co-written with Benoit Graffin, hints at melancholy and deeper frustrations.” (The Hollywood Reporter) |