SO CLOSE (Tellement Proches) Official Selection: Alpe d'Huez International Comedy Film Festival (2009) Youth Jury Award at the 2009 Alpe d'Huez International Comedy Film Festival World Premiere Comedy France, 2009 In French with English subtitles Written & Directed by: Eric Tolédano & Olivier Nakache Cinematography by: Rémy Chevrin Editing by: Dorian Rigal-Ansous Original Music by: Frédéric Talgorn Produced by: Quad + ONE International sales: KINOLOGY 65 rue de Clichy 75009 Paris Tel: +33 9 51 47 43 44 With: Vincent Elbaz (Alain), Isabelle Carré (Nathalie), Audrey Dana (Catherine), François-Xavier Demaison (Jean-Pierre), Joséphine de Meaux (Roxane), Omar Sy (Bruno) Tackling the subject of family ties and conflict in Tolédano and Nakache’s signature light-hearted humor, So Close stars Vincent Elbaz (Would I Lie to You, Maybe, Le Péril Jeune) and Isabelle Carré (Private Fears in Public Places, The Horseman on the Roof, Beaumarchais The Scoundrel). Alain (Vincent Elbaz) met Nathalie (Isabelle Carré) while working at a Club Med. When he married her, he didn’t realize he was also marrying her sister Catherine (Audrey Dana, Roman de Gare (COL•COA 2008), Welcome (COL•COA 2009)) and her brother-in-law Jean-Pierre (François-Xavier Demaison, Coluche, L’histoire d’un mec). Alain has less and less patience for their overbearing presence in his life. Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano started their collaboration with the short films Le Jour et la Nuit (1995) and Les Petits Souliers (1999), which won Best Short Film award at the Paris Film Festival. Starring Gérard Depardieu and Jean-Paul Rouve, their directorial debut Just Friends (2005) was screened at COL•COA in 2005. Three years after winning the COL•COA Audience Award for Those Happy Days (2006), the writer-director duo returns to COL•COA with the World Premiere of their new comedy So Close. Followed by a discussion with writer-directors Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache