ANGÈLE & TONY North American Premiere Drama/Romance France, 2011 In French with English subtitles 35mm I 1.85 I Dolby SRD I Color Runtime: 87 min Written and Directed by: Alix Delaporte Cinematography by: Claire Mathon Film Editing by: Louise Decelle Original Score by: Mathieu Maestracci Produced by: Hélène Cases (Lionceau Films) International Sales: Pyramide International 5, rue du Chevalier de Saint-George 75008 Paris, France Ph: +33 1.42.96.02.20 Fax: +33 1.40.20.05.51 www.pyramidefilms.com Cast: Clotilde Hesme (Angèle), Grégory Gadebois (Tony), Evelyne Didi (Myriam), Antoine Couleau (Yohan), Jérôme Huguet (Ryan), Patrick Descamps (Yohan’s grandfather), Patrick Ligardes (Angèle’s Counselor) Set in a Normandy fishing village, ANGÈLE & TONY follows the unlikely encounter between the rebellious Angèle ("Mysteries Of Lisbon," "Regular Lovers," "The Grocer’s Son" [COLCOA 2008]), a young woman recently released from prison and Tony (Grégory Gadebois, "La Ligne droite," "Gainsbourg" [COLCOA 2010]), a stern fisherman who answers her dating ad. Angèle has come to the village in search for a job and a husband in order to be granted custody of her son, while Tony is in search for true love. Angèle is as blunt as Tony is reserved. They both share emotionally scarred pasts, and as they get to know each other, a deep bond develops. ALIX DELAPORTE studied screenwriting at La Fémis and was a television journalist before writing and directing her first short film, LE PIÈGE in 2003. Her second short, COMMENT ON FREINE DANS UNE DESCENTE, also starring Clothilde Hesme, won the Corto Cortissimo Lion for Best Short Film at the 2006 Venice Mostra. In 2007, she directed LE DERNIER MATCH, a documentary about Zinédine Zidane narrated by Jean-Louis Trintignant. Her first feature, ANGÈLE & TONY screened at the 2010 Venice Mostra Critics Week and won the Michel d’Ornano prize at the 2010 Deauville Film Festival. Her writing credits also include the TV series FORTUNES, directed by Stéphane Meunier, which won a 2008 Prix Europa for Best Television fiction script. PRESS "Alix Delaporte's feature debut is a work of subtle intimacy about the need for a human connection, with the bulk of the heavy lifting done by pitch-perfect, wholly naturalistic perfs from Clotilde Hesme and Gregory Gadebois, who star, respectively, as a fierce young woman with a past and a coarse fisherman whose lives unexpectedly intertwine." VARIETY