Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #41. Gustave Kervern & Benoit Delepine’s Saint Amour

Saint Amour

Directors: Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine
Writers: Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine

Eclectic Belgian directing duo Gustave Kervern and Benoit Delepine have created a variety of bizarre scenarios together ever since their 2004 debut Aaltra. Notable titles also included 2010’s Mammuth starring Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani, as well as their not-to-be-missed 2012 title Le Grand Soir, which won the top prize out of Directors’ Fortnight. In Venice 2014, they unveiled Near Death Experience while Kervern has been appearing on other French projects in front of the camera, opposite Catherine Deneuve in In the Courtyard (2014) as well as 2015’s delightfully offbeat Ashphalte from Samuel Benchetrit (unveiled out of competition at Cannes). They often recycle the same cast mates in their feature, and a few of them populate their next feature, Saint Amour (previously known as The Wine Route), with leads Depardieu and Benoit Poelvoorde (The Brand New Testament; 3 Hearts) as father and son farmers who share a strained relationship but take off on a road trip along the wine route.

Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Benoit Poelvoorde, Vincent Lacoste, Celine Sallette, Chiara Mastroianni, Andrea Ferreol, Izia Higelin, Ana Girardot.

Production Co.: JPG Films

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic) TBD (international).

Release Date: The title has been in post-production since October, so we hope to see the pair invited back to Cannes, though most likely they’d appear once more in the Director’s Fortnight.