Filming for Virginie Despentes’ Bye Bye Blondie took place over the summer and we finally have some production/set pics gathered from the interwebs (here & here) on a punk, lesbian film we expect to see rocking the Croisette next May. Below, we have Emmanuelle Béart in what would be a pic where her character gets chauffeured around. Below that in the b&w pic, you find you find Dalle with DP Hélène Louvart (At Ellen’s Age) and Despentes. The Les Inrockuptibles article mentions that the release of Baise-moi a decade back hasn’t made financing her 2nd film easier, she is filming with a budget of less than 3 million euros and had to cut some key backdrops from the shooting script.
Adapted by the director from her eponymous novel, Gloria (Dalle) lives in Nancy. Unemployed, without a family, and with no permanent address, she wastes her days at a local watering hole. Frances (Béart) lives in Paris – she is a popular figure in television and is married to a novelist. While in the public eye they form the ideal couple, in their private lives, she prefers women and her husband is into boys. On a trip out to Nancy, Frances reunites with Gloria who she hasn’t see since 1985. Their big love story also happens to be Gloria’s biggest heartbreak. Life continued, but how will these two women from different realities find each other?
A smaller pic of the young actress who I believe to be SoKo (with the punk feathercut), she plays the younger version of Béatrice Dalle’s character.
