Studiocanal & Gilles Lellouche Woo Buyers For ‘Beating Hearts’ – Paris Rendez-vous
20.01.2024 - 08:51
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Studiocanal rolled out the red carpet at the Unifrance Paris Rendez-vous this week for actor Gilles Lellouche’s upcoming feature film Beating Hearts (L’Amour Ouf).
First images for the unconventional romance played on the big screen to two packed-out screenings at the swanky Royal Monceau hotel off the Champs-Elysées on Thursday evening.
The modern Romeo and Juliet tale co-stars François Civil, who is currently riding high on the back of his D’Artagnan role in Pathé’s Three Musketeers reboot, and Adèle Exarchopoulos as former childhood sweethearts from different sides of the tracks.
Having gone their separate ways when the boy gets caught up in gang violence and lands in jail on trumped-up murder charges, the pair reconnect against the odds years later.
The picture is adapted from Irish writer Neville Thompson’s 1997 novel Jackie Loves Johnser OK? unfolding against the backdrop of Dublin’s tough suburb of Ballyfermot in the 1980s
Lellouche has transposed the story to France, co-writing the screenplay with Ahmed Hamidi, his collaborator on 2018 comedy Sink Or Swim, and Venice Golden Lion winner Audrey Diwan.
The actor-director also stopped by the Studiocanal event with Exarchopoulos and Civil as well as supporting cast members Mallory Wanecque, Vincent Lacoste and Jean-Pascal Zadi.
He explained that actor Benoît Poelvoorde had first introduced him to the work 15 years ago.
“I fell in love with this book and this story about a violent love story. I jumped into this adventure with Ahmed Hamidi and Audrey Diwan,”
He paid tribute to his producers, Hugo Sélignac at Chi-Fou-Mi (The Stronghold, November) and Alain Attal (Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom) at Trésor Films for getting behind him on the project.
“I am so